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Standards in Public Sector Information

Matthew Pearce The National Archives. Standards in Public Sector Information. Areas for standards in Public Sector Information?. Culture Norms and attitudes towards making information available. Formats Information may be available, but is it useable? Licensing

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Standards in Public Sector Information

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  1. Matthew Pearce The National Archives Standards in Public Sector Information

  2. Areas for standards in Public Sector Information? • Culture • Norms and attitudes towards making information available. • Formats • Information may be available, but is it useable? • Licensing • Information may be available, but are we allowed to use it?

  3. What would success look like? PSIH - Supply side • Similar public bodies making similar information available. • In similar formats. • Under compatible licensing terms. Re-user - Demand side • Comprehensive data coverage. • Don’t have to do the same work multiple times. • Legal uncertainty reduced, greater assurance.

  4. Standards for… Licensing? • Economy of scale: UK Government Licensing Framework • Open Government Licence: default for central government. • Useful standards • Policy Open Knowledge Definition • Technical interoperability: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

  5. Standards for… Formats? • How far should government tie itself to particular technologies? • What can we agree on? • 5-star scheme: • Publish via the web; • In a structured, machine readable format; • That is not proprietary. • Use URIs to identify things, so they can be pointed at. • Link your data to others’ to provide context.

  6. Standards for… Culture? • Organisations copy each other’s behaviour: best practice. • Example: Local government & OGL in the UK. • UK Public Data Principles – establishing norms. Technical & legal elements, but also: • PSIHs should actively encourage re-use. • PSIHs should release data in a timely fashion. • Policy should be driven by re-users and the public.

  7. Are our standards legally compliant? • UK approach the PSI Directive as a baseline for performance. • UKGLF – default Open Government Licence. • Information Fair Trader Scheme – Maximisation and Innovation principles. • Public Task – establishing a pre-emptive system for thinking about an organisation’s information duties.

  8. Questions? matthew.pearce@nationalarchives.gov.uk

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