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Our approach to updating Open Standards
Why we keep track of Open Standards using static versioning instead of automatically updating them.
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Demonstrating the benefits of AI in government with the Rubik’s Cube
The world record for solving a scrambled Rubik's cube is 4.22 seconds. But what can this teach us about using AI in government?
Open Document Format in government: an update
The Open Standards team was asked 4 years ago by the Open Standards Board to help government publish documents in a more open, transparent and accessible way. We’ve since made progress in achieving these objectives but we still have more …
Help us open up UK election data
The Local Government Association (LGA) contacted the Open Standards Team and asked for our help to increase accessibility of election results.
It’s time to use ISO 8601 across government
The Open Standards Board has issued date-times and time-stamps guidance mandating the use of the ISO 8601 standard on UK government IT systems. ISO 8601 displays dates and times in order of increasing accuracy. For example, the stamp 2017-01-25T12:34:56+00:00 …
StackTech3: 10 topics that need cross-government collaboration
StackTech is an unconference that brings together technologists from departments across the country. Unlike a traditional conference, attendees pitch ideas on the day and then run sessions. The third StackTech took place at the end of October this year. Summarising an …
How we represent data when developing APIs
At GDS, “make things open,” is something you hear on a daily basis. In my new role as the GDS Open Standards Lead, I’m helping to make sure we do this, ensuring we choose the best open standards, and promote …
Holding our next cross-government StackTech
Back in 2014 we held an unconference aimed at creating a conversation between technologists across government. The event, dubbed StackTech, turned out to be a big success and led to discussions still going on today, like how to improve reuse …
Come and join the GDS Tech Group
GDS is constantly on the lookout for great technologists to come and work with us. We have roles open at the moment for technical architects, developers, and web operations engineers but we have other more specific roles in the pipeline …
Open standards for contact details and calendar events
Hello, I’d like to draw your collective attention to two challenges for open standards: exchange of calendar events exchange of contact information The date of the next bank holiday is one of the top needs answered by GOV.UK. I like …