Case Studies

Our standards case studies provide a summary of the history, development process, governance and key actors involved in the development of an open standard for data

The following case studies were written as part of the research for our reports on the approaches to development and adopting open standards for data.

We selected these standards because they different types of standard, developed by different types of standards organisation. We feel they reflect some of the variety of approaches taken in standards development.

General Transit Feed Specification

A case study of the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and the General Transit Feed Specification Realtime (GTFS-RT) extension.

BSI’s PSI 182 Smart City Model

A summary of the history, development process, governance and key actors involved in the development of the BSI PAS 182 Smart city concept model.

Brownfield Site Register Open Data Standard

A case study of the UK Brownfield Site Register Open Data Standard.

How to use this guide

There are a number of ways for you to learn more about the creation, development and adoption of open standards for data.

About this guide

This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data. It supports a variety of users, including policy leads, domain experts and technologists.

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