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.