Guidance

Standards Catalogue

Updated 25 October 2023

Description:

The Data Standards Catalogue currently contains the standards listed below. We also have a list of .

Name Tags Status Date updated
Domain Specific Payments Clearing and Settlement Endorsed 2021-02-02
A standardised way of recording and sharing information about how the public sector uses algorithmic tools. Algorithms, Transparency Endorsed -


Defines a common data format that provides a consistent way to collect, use, exchange and publish beneficial ownership information.
Service Referrals Service, Product, Application, System or Platform Design Endorsed 2022-03-16
Tabular Data Data, Information and Records Management Lifecycle Open Documents Endorsed 2021-02-02
DOI introduces persistent identifiers for research and information assets Identification Endorsed -
Data, Information and Records Management Lifecycle Open Documents Endorsed 2021-02-02
Making it easy to publish, find and use community services data Service Referrals Service, Product, Application, System or Platform Design Endorsed 2021-03-16
provides with a simple way to report a vulnerability Vulnerability, Reporting, Security Endorsed -
is the UK geographic metadata standard Semantics Metadata In review 2020-12-01
Identification Geospatial Common Reference Data Endorsed 2020-12-16
Domain Specific Payments Clearing and Settlement In review 2021-02-02

360Giving Schema

Name

Tags

  • Domain Specific
  • Payments Clearing and Settlement

Maintained By

Licence

Open standard -

Status

In review

Guidance:

Resources for the 360Giving data standard: - view the 360Giving schema to - use the 360Giving data standard to disclose and publish grant data from government organisations - produce 360Giving data

Algorithmic Transparency Reporting Standard

Tags

  • Algorithms
  • Transparency

Maintained by

UK 바카라 사이트 (CDDO and CDEI)

License

Open standard -

Status

Endorsed

The Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard helps public sector organisations provide clear information about the algorithmic tools they use, and why they바카라 사이트re using them. Algorithmic transparency means being open about how algorithmic tools support decisions. This includes providing information on algorithmic tools and algorithm-assisted decisions in a complete, open, understandable, easily-accessible, and free format.

Algorithmic transparency reporting standard hub:

CDEI report on algorithmic transparency in the public sector:

Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) v0.3

Name

Tags

  • Service Referrals
  • Service, Product, Application, System or Platform Design

Maintained By

Licence

Open standard -

Status

Endorsed

Use the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard v0.2 to collect, use, exchange and publish beneficial ownership information.

Read 바카라 사이트 guidance about this standard to help you:

  • learn how to use it for government work
  • find out how it meets user needs
  • access links to data schemas, technical guidance and example data
  • publish BODS data properly and following government policy

The UK government has committed to publishing beneficial ownership data in a structured, machine-readable format which meets the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard. If you바카라 사이트re publishing beneficial ownership data to , you must .

Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files

Name

Also Known As

RFC4180

Tags

  • Tabular Data
  • Data, Information and Records Management Lifecycle
  • Open Documents

Maintained By

Licence

Unknown

Status

Endorsed

You can use this standard for publishing data, where your data has a variety of uses and is for many users. This standard does not cover non-tabular models of data. For example:

  • multiple tables with relations, such as SQL
  • hierarchical/flexible records, such as XML or JSON
  • geographic, such as GeoJSON
  • graph/triples, such as RDF This standard does not cover extra information about the tabular data, such as the column types, or table contents validation. You should keep this type of information separate from a CSV file to avoid it conflicting with the data structure as described in RFC 4180..

Guidance:

How To:

Digital Object identifier System

Tags

  • Identification

Maintained by

Licence

Open standard -

Status

Endorsed

The DOI system enables persistent identifiers with permanent web addresses to be assigned to key information assets published by government, using an external registration agency. DOIs help to make key resources, such as data, insights, bulletins and policy documents findable, citable and better connected.

바카라 사이트 Guidance on persistent resolvable identifiers:

바카라 사이트 service manual:

ODF 1.2

Name

Tags

  • Data, Information and Records Management Lifecycle
  • Open Documents

Maintained By

Licence

Unknown

Status

Endorsed

The ODF standard works on most operating systems for desktops, laptops, mobile phones and tablets. ODF 1.2 is an open standard that allows suppliers to create interoperable office productivity solutions; allows stricter security checks to help prevent common cyber-attack scenarios; can lower IT costs as ODF is either low cost or free to use; allows the government and citizens, businesses and other organisations to share documents; allows government staff to share and edit documents; is compatible with a wide range of software including assistive technology; can add digital signatures to a document; has a powerful generic metadata system.

Guidance:

How To:

OpenReferralUK

Name

Tags

  • Service Referrals
  • Service, Product, Application, System or Platform Design

Maintained By

Licence

Open standard -

Status

Endorsed

The standard provides for recording sufficient data to be able to identify a small target set of services that closely meet the needs of a prospective service user, as given by the user바카라 사이트s location and circumstances. The OpenReferral schema defines a structure for human services data - that is, a directory of services that meet human needs. Open Referral UK extends Open Referral to support richer data where needed. It then constrains the resultant schema by means of an application profile which says what fields are recommended for English use and what external vocabularies to reference.

Use Cases:

Case Studies:

Guidance:

How To:

Security.txt

Tags

  • Vulnerability
  • Reporting
  • Security

Maintained by

Licence

Open standard -

Status

Endorsed

The security.txt data standard was developed to make it easier to publish important information regarding how to report a vulnerability. One of the most important elements of vulnerability disclosure, and a challenge for the finder, is understanding who to contact. Security.txt is an IETF Internet informational specification (RFC 9116) and it describes a text file that webmasters can host in the 바카라 사이트/.well-known바카라 사이트 directory of the domain root. This file advertises the department바카라 사이트s vulnerability disclosure process so that someone can quickly find all of the information needed to report a vulnerability.

Guidance:

  • A piece of guidance will be published to help people use the security.txt standard. New data standards require guidance in 바카라 사이트profile바카라 사이트 form to give users information about how it works, and how to find resources about it. A piece of guidance in the form of a basic 바카라 사이트profile바카라 사이트 to help people use the security/txt standard will be added.

UK Gemini

Name

Also Known As

GEMINI

Tags

  • Semantics
  • Metadata

Maintained By

Licence

Open standard -

Status

In review

바카라 사이트GEMINI바카라 사이트 is the UK geographic metadata standard. It provides guidance on how to publish geographic metadata in a way that conforms to relevant ISO standards and the UK바카라 사이트s implementation of the European INSPIRE regulations. UK GEMINI (GEo-spatial Metadata INteroperability Initiative) is a specification for a set of metadata elements for describing geospatial data resources. It has been produced and is maintained by the Standards Committee.

Use Case:

Case Studies:

Guidance:

How To:

Unique Property Reference Number

Name

Unique Property Reference Number

Also Known As

UPRN

Tags

  • Identification
  • Geospatial
  • Common Reference Data

Maintained By

Licence

Open standard -

Status

Endorsed

UPRN stands for Unique Property Reference Number and was created by the Ordnance Survey (OS). It consists of numbers of up to 12 digits in length. Local governments in the UK have allocated a unique number for each land or property.

Use Cases:

Case Studies:

Guidance:

How To:

Universal financial industry message scheme

Name

Also Known As

ISO20022

Tags

  • Domain Specific
  • Payments Clearing and Settlement

Maintained By

Licence

Proprietary

Status

In review

ISO 20022 is a multi part International Standard prepared by ISO Technical Committee TC68 Financial Services. It describes a common platform for the development of messages using: - a modelling methodology to capture in a syntax-independent way financial business areas, business transactions and associated message flows - a central dictionary of business items used in financial communications - a set of XML and ASN.1 design rules to convert the message models into XML or ASN.1 schemas, whenever the use of the ISO 20022 XML or ASN.1-based syntax is preferred.

How To: