Yes, and there are a couple of organizations currently, Schema.org and World Wide Web Foundation. There are different actors. Someone already mentioned the Open Knowledge Foundation. There are a bunch of organizations that are feeding into the development of these standards.
As I said, at the end of the day we just have to get to the point where the data from one jurisdiction is comparable to the data from any other jurisdiction. We have to come close on these standards, and you'd be challenged to find a jurisdiction that isn't interested in doing that. Most of them want to be able to compare their data to another jurisdiction's data.