Open Data Services Co-operative

From freelancers to co-operators: the power of co-ops and working together

Strengthening social care: using open data to make social care and support accountable

How to publish useful grantmaking data: what we’ve learned from 360Giving

Armenia and Latvia publish BODS: building a data standard from scratch

Heads up: we’re hiring soon!

It’s Co-ops Fortnight, and this year Co-operatives UK are encouraging people to join a co-op. To mark the…

Remote work is for life, not just for lockdown

As a team that has always operated remotely, we’ve been relatively insulated…

Strengthening Social Care with Open Data: making care and support accountable to the people who matter most

Announcing OCDS Downloads: making it easier to work with data published using the Open Contracting Data Standard

Introducing Standards Lab: an experimental environment for data standards

By Michael Wood

What’s CoVE got to do with it?

At some point in your interactions with our co-operative, you might have heard us talking about CoVE. But…

Building Prioritisation Processes for Our Co-operative Work

Announcing d-preview: helping organisations check their IATI data before publishing

Introducing our new Python library: Spreadsheet Forms

Connecting the dots between beneficial ownership and procurement data: improving processes and identifying risk

A beginners guide to identifiers: linking beneficial ownership and open contracting data

Creating a data standard for infrastructure: putting it to use

We’ve been working with CoST — the…

Building open decision making mechanisms for our co-operative

By Kadie Armstrong and Steven Flower

Technical case studies: What can we learn from the choices made by OCDS implementers?

Creating a data standard for infrastructure transparency: building it

Creating a data standard for infrastructure transparency: laying the foundations

What we’ve learnt running bilingual remote workshops

First, then, finally: writing useful documentation

by Rob Redpath

Opening up political influence: announcing declared.

To be truly open, you need to standardise

So, you publish some open data? That’s great. If you’re…