The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) is a new data standard for publishing data on fibre optic broadband infrastructure. Under a joint declaration, the World Bank and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) launched the OFDS initiative and partnered with Mozilla Corporation. They involved a range of stakeholders from civil society…

In this blog post, we explore how Open Referral is using open data to connect people with services that can help them, the infrastructure needed to support that data, and the importance of balancing interoperability and flexibility in data standards. Information about health, human, and social services — for example…

In this blog post, we explore why data about physical activities matters, the tools and infrastructure needed to support that data, and how data strategy can help ensure that data is useful, usable and in use. In England, one in four people do fewer than 30 minutes of physical activity…

In this blog post, we introduce Flatterer — a new tool that helps convert JSON into tabular data. To hear more about Flatterer, sign up to join David Raznick at the Frictionless Data Hangout on July 28th. Open data needs to be available in formats people want to work with…

At Open Data Services, we help organisations publish high quality, open and standardised data. One thing we’ve learned along the way is the importance of helping people to visualise that data clearly and effectively at every stage of the publishing process. For some organisations, publishing and maintaining open data can…

At Open Data Services we build and support multiple data standards working across complex policy areas. There’s one feature all of the data standards we work on have in common — references to organisations. In fact, if you’re working with data that deals with just about anything to do with…

The UK government has announced its commitment to collect, use, exchange and publish beneficial ownership information using the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) after approval by the Open Standards Board. At Open Data Services, we build and maintain BODS in partnership with Open Ownership who fund and steward the standard…

In this blog post, we reflect on our work on the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, and share what we’ve learned about how technology and policy can work together. You can also read Thom Townsend, Executive Director of Open Ownership, reflect on our work together on the Open Ownership blog. In…

In March 2015, Open Data Services was set up by four freelancers who wanted to help people publish and use open data. Nearly seven years later, we’ve grown to a team of 23 people working to make open data useful, usable and in use. For us, working in a co-operative…