Published inOpen Data Services·Mar 23Open Fibre Data Standard: opening up fibre optic broadband infrastructureThe 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…Fibre Optic6 min readFibre Optic6 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Aug 11, 2022Open Referral: helping people find and access community resourcesIn 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…Open Data3 min readOpen Data3 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Aug 11, 2022OpenActive: using open data to help people get movingIn 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…Data Standards3 min readData Standards3 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Jul 14, 2022Announcing Flatterer: converting structured data into tabular dataIn 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…Data Standards4 min readData Standards4 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Jun 15, 2022Previewing data before publication: what we’ve learned from 1 year of d-previewAt 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…Iati Standard5 min readIati Standard5 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Apr 13, 2022Why do open organisational identifiers matter?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…Open Data5 min readOpen Data5 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Mar 18, 2022UK government commits to publishing data using the Beneficial Ownership Data StandardThe 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…Beneficial Ownership2 min readBeneficial Ownership2 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Feb 2, 2022How policy informs technology, and technology informs policy: building a data standard for beneficial ownership transparencyIn 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…Beneficial Ownership4 min readBeneficial Ownership4 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Jan 21, 2022From freelancers to co-operators: the power of co-ops and working togetherIn 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…Worker Cooperatives1 min readWorker Cooperatives1 min read
Published inOpen Data Services·Jan 13, 2022Strengthening social care: using open data to make social care and support accountableHow do you create a shared digital infrastructure for making care open, accountable and transparent? In this blog post we explore the state of data about social care in the UK, how we’re working with Equal Care to improve it, and what needs to be done next. If you’re trying…Open Data4 min readOpen Data4 min read
