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.
How to open up closed code
Every digital service designed within government has to meet the Digital Service Standard. One of the requirements of the standard is that new source code should be made open and published under an open source licence.
Developing cross-government API data and technical standards
We are pleased to launch the API data and technical standards, which is the culmination of fantastic cross-government collaboration, facilitated by GDS.
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 …
Identifying the challenges of designing cross-government APIs
Technical Writer, Khidr Suleman attended a cross-government API Standards event at the end of October. The event provided an opportunity to discuss how to promote common principles of API design to make them easy to implement across government. A total …
How making our deployment code open improved our workflow
As part of the GDS commitment to code in the open, we have opened up GOV.UK’s application deployment code. This came with a number of challenges but it increased the development team’s efficiency and collaboration. Find out why we opened …
Upgrading our GOV.UK search engine: a postmortem and lessons learnt
When preparing to update the GOV.UK search engine, a code change resulted in missing or duplicated search results. Find out how our search team fixed this issue, what we’ve learnt and the safeguards we’ve put in place to prevent it …
StackTech3: 10 topics that need cross-government collaboration
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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 tackle the challenges of transformation
...biggest technical architecture challenges at the centre of government. If you’re interested in applying for a role as a technical architect in government, please see the Civil Service Jobs page....
Open Source security meetup: 7 things we learned from the cross-government event
Technical Writer on Standards and Assurance, Khidr Suleman attended the cross-government Open Source meetup in London organised by GDS. Here’s a recap of the day’s events...
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