...and foreign key constraints as links between registers. However, relational databases do not provide the ability to link between registers run by different organisations - you can’t have a foreign...
On the registers team, we are building a product that provides teams with data that is good enough to build services on. Registers are defined by certain characteristics such as...
...enforcing the registers approach (always welcome when heartfelt) and in challenging the register’s shape and contents. I received over 30 comments from 9 organisations in the public and private sectors,...
...of the Registers Design Authority is to devise the service and standards to enable a large number of custodians to establish registers. We also assure registers’ compliance with these standards....
We recently shared what we've learned so far about how government data is published. This has already helped us think about how we can improve the way we do this, but we still want to know more about users at …
Last month the Open Government Partnership (OGP) celebrated its fifth birthday in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York. It was an exciting milestone for an organisation which has grown over five short years from an ambitious …
A few months ago, we published some guidance on GOV.UK that explains how registers are created. We did this to meet what was a previously unfulfilled user need. We often...
...(FCO) second register - the territory register - is now in alpha too. The territory register’s custodian, Tony Worron, has kindly shared his experience of going through the register creation...
This week we have launched a revamped system for publishing data on staff roles and salaries across government departments, agencies and other bodies. This ‘organogram’ data shows the hierarchy of senior civil servants, their pay and responsibilities. Junior staff are …
We want more citizens and businesses to find open government data - and for that data to be as useful as possible. Our users have told us that problems with the quality of the data available through data.gov.uk mean that …
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