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Reference Standards

Associated Standards

Standard/Acronym Purpose Why We Interface
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) The international standard for electronic transmission of business and financial data (e.g., SEC and FDIC filings use it). We map its transactional fields directly to the relevant XBRL taxonomy elements for regulatory compliance reporting.
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) Global standard for identifying parties to financial transactions worldwide. While the UEI is authoritative in the U.S. government space, our protocol needs to contain a field for the LEI if the entity is globally registered, ensuring compliance for any international transactions.
W3C PROV (Provenance) The World Wide Web Consortium standard for recording the historical lifecycle and data quality of a piece of information. Our core value is Provenance. We adopt the principles of W3C PROV to formally define how data history, revisions, and sources are timestamped and logged.
GTAS (Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol) The framework used by the Treasury for standardized federal financial reporting. Transactional data (e.g., amounts, categories) must be translatable into GTAS fields for seamless reporting up to the Treasury level.

Bridge

  • Official U.S UEI: The U.S. government already uses a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), a 12-character alphanumeric ID assigned by SAM.gov, for all entities receiving federal financial assistance or doing business with the federal government (Source 3.1, 3.2). Often does not appear on state/local campaign finance reports or local school district consultant contracts unless federal funds are directly involved.
  • Open-Source Data Cleaning Tools: Tools like Splink, OpenRefine, and Python/Pandas to manually clean and standardize messy names ("Acme Consulting, LLC" vs. "Acme Consulting") (Source 2.1, 2.3).