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When open data is standardised and uses an open API, it’s easier to read and access, creating opportunities for startups, researchers and communities to innovate with it.

The ODI helped create the momentum to develop open standards for retail banking data and is now using open standards to help the UK get more physically active through the OpenActive initiative.

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Current project
Using data in the public sector
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Science and research
- Emily Sinclair
- James Maddison
We are helping cities and local governments make better use of data – to create more public services that have data embedded in their design and to enable better decision making.
Current project
R&D: Sustainable data access
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Ben Snaith
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Diana Szasz
- Jack Hardinges
- Sonia Duarte
This research and development project aims to support data institutions – and other data access initiatives – in becoming sustainable
Current project
R&D: Data infrastructure for common challenges
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Skills and literacy
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
- Leigh Dodds
- Pauline L’Hénaff
This research and development project aims to create guidance and tools to help sectors build data infrastructure and address common challenges
Previous project
R&D: Trustworthy data institutions
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Policy
This project explores some of the mechanisms that might be used to determine trustworthiness in a data institution
Previous project
R&D: Sustainable data institutions
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Policy
- Diana Szasz
- Leigh Dodds
We are exploring how data institutions can become sustainable, and are researching areas – from initial funding through to revenue/business models – that may help to achieve sustainability
Previous project
R&D: Collaborative data maintenance
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Startups
- Leigh Dodds
- Sonia Duarte
- Vicky Hallam
We aim to identify and document design patterns that support the creation of tools to collaboratively maintain data assets
Previous project
R&D: Open standards for the UK energy sector
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Policy
- Weather, energy and environment
- Olivier Thereaux
Applying the principles and tools of the Open Data Standards guidebook to a data standards project for customer data in the UK energy sector
R&D main project only (overarching Innovate UK page only)
Data innovation for the UK: research and development
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Science and research
- Olivier Thereaux
- Vicky Hallam
Our R&D projects cut across themes of data sharing and trust; supporting innovation; and upgrading data infrastructure
Previous project
R&D: Making it easier to create open standards for data
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Leigh Dodds
Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data
Current project, Startup programme
OpenActive: Getting the nation active
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Ellen Goodman
- Oliver Sisman
The Open Data Institute and Sport England are working together to improve and open up information about physical activity and sporting opportunities across England
Previous project
Open banking: setting a standard and enabling innovation
- Banking and finance
- Open standards and open APIs
If implemented effectively, open banking will unlock innovation that will transform and improve the customer banking experience
Previous project
Thomson Reuters' data services go open
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Open standards and open APIs
- Skills and literacy
Thomson Reuters took an innovative linked data approach that allowed it to join up its specialised data assets without having to migrate them to a single database or data warehouse

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