Revision history

April 17, 2024

• Added an IsIndependent element to the reference page for Party.

February 12, 2024

• Added documentation throughout the site for the new Metadata feed.

January 9, 2024

• Add support for Tiktok accounts as an AnnotatedUri

January 3, 2024

• Updating Internal Considerations with a bit more nuance about how and when to translate or transliterate data.

July 24, 2023

• Added Committee type for Political Committees and a corresponding feed type

January 20, 2023

• Added a Slogan element to the reference page for Party.
• Added a CampaignSlogan element to the reference page for Candidate.

November 17, 2022

• Added guide for Process to update OCD IDs

December 30, 2021

• Added a PartialDate section to the Simple Data Types page, as well as updating some of the table fields.

December 27, 2021

• Modified content within the CandidateContest section of the Contest page to support only one office per contest, as well as updating some of the XML examples.

October 15, 2021

• Added ExternalIdentifier section to the reference page for Candidate.

August 20, 2021

• Created an OfficeSelectionMethod page, added the SelectionMethod element to the Office. Elements table, and updated codel examples.

February 26, 2021

• Added an example to the Term reference page on how to represent the tenure of reelected officeholders in an Officeholder feed.

February 24, 2021

• Added information about party-chair-id to the Party reference material.

February 18, 2021

• Added a diagram to the CandidatePreElectionStatus reference material that illustrates the timing of statuses.

December 14, 2020

• Added Guides pages that describe the available feed types. Updated the Reference pages to provide best practices to follow for most entities.