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.

The open standards for data guidebook was developed and published by the Open Data Institute (ODI) in 2018. It is intended to support people and organisations to create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

Background

The ODI’s innovation programme kicked off in July 2017 to advance knowledge and expertise in how data can shape the next generation of services, and create economic growth. The funds for it were awarded through Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, in a three-year programme, running to March 2020 with a funding profile of £2m each year.

The programme consists of a number of projects which are all aimed at advancing our understanding of the opportunities data can bring and some of the pitfalls to avoid. They are intended to enable the UK to build on its established strengths in data and data analytics, break new ground in creating value from data across industry, and ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of data innovation globally.

This guidebook was produced as part of a project exploring how to make it quicker and easier for organisations to create and adopt open standards for data.

The project consisted of three phases:

We have created some suggestions of how to use this guide.

Acknowledgements

This guidebook is the end result of the hard work and enthusiasm of a large team of people from across the ODI and our wider network.

In addition to the in-house team working on the project, we would like to thank:

We would also like to give a special thank you to everyone who contributed to other areas of the project.

Whether you participated in interviews, attended workshops, helped with our user research, contributed to a podcast, or reviewied early drafts of the guidebook, your time and efforts are greatly appreciated.

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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