Guidance

Recommended open standards for government

Information about the open standards recommended for use in government technology.

• From: Government Digital Service and Central Digital and Data Office
• Published: 26 June 2019
• Last updated: 28 September 2023
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  1. 28 September 2023

     Added the document: Using metadata to describe data assets in a data catalogue

  2. 7 August 2020

     Addition of 3 new profiles for 'Using metadata to describe tabular data for publishing', 'Using metadata to describe data shared within government' and 'Using metadata to describe csv data'. Please note that the publication date for these profiles will appear on all the profiles, but there are no changes to any other profiles at this time.

  3. 28 June 2019

     Addition of the recommended Tabular Data Standard.

  4. 26 June 2019

     First published.

Documents

Using metadata to describe data shared within government

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Using metadata to describe data assets in a data catalogue

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Using metadata to describe tabular data for publishing

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Using metadata to describe CSV data

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Tabular data standard

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Describing RESTful APIs with OpenAPI 3

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The UK government selects open standards for use in government technology. The aim is to apply these consistently across government bodies, making our services more integrated and better for users.

These profiles include the open standards chosen by peer review and public comment through the Open Standards for government process.

The Open Standards Board endorsed the first set of open standards for government technology in September 2013.