Data Standards

EDIT — The second part of this review is now published at https://medium.com/@rkavanagh/part-2-data-standards-for-data-standards-80c297bbff7d As an IT professional I have been working with data in one form or another for many years, initially within financial services but for the last 15+ years within the healthcare domain. Within the healthcare arena, the…

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…

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…

There are a lot of data standards related to data science, open data, scientific data, digital assets as data, and so on. It’s nearly impossible to talk about all of them at once, and I’ve collected the most important list. Data catalogs and metadata publishing standards GovEx&Geothink data standards catalog https://datastandards.directory/ — a large catalog of…

Now the UK Government Data Standards Authority Steering Board has endorsed Open Referral UK (ORUK), you can expect to see it used to share open information on services by public sector and community organisations across the UK. …

Or, what the digitization of textbooks has to do with Schiller and power sockets Have you ever wondered why schools, language courses, and professional development programs barely use digital textbooks? The answer is simple: because there are hardly any digital textbooks. The world was made painfully aware of this during the COVID-19 lockdowns (for example, when students received teaching material for distance learning in…

In this post you learn what existing energy data exchange standards currently lack, how they can be advanced with semantic technology and what happens when some energy data is integrated in a knowledge graph In our post Electrical Standards, Smart Grids and Your Air Conditioner, we talked about why accessing…

Describing ML Models with the Geospatial Machine Learning Model Catalog (GMLMC) — By Jon Duckworth, Technical Lead & Geospatial Software Engineer, Radiant Earth Foundation, and Eugene Cheipesh, Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead, Azavea Click here to read Part 1. “If we, as a community, can build tools that leverage these formats to allow users to discover, query, re-use, and publish their…