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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
R&D: Collaborative data maintenance
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Startups
- Leigh Dodds
- Miranda Marcus
- Myriam Roderick
- Sonia Duarte
- Vicky Hallam
We aim to identify and document design patterns that support the creation of tools to collaboratively maintain data assets
Current project
R&D: Open standards for the UK energy sector
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Weather, energy and environment
- Miranda Marcus
- Olivier Thereaux
- Waverley Coquet
Applying the principles and tools of the Open Data Standards guidebook to a data standards project for customer data in the UK energy sector
Current project
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
- Anna Scott
- Jeni Tennison
- Miranda Marcus
- Peter Wells
Our R&D projects cut across themes of data sharing and trust; supporting innovation; and upgrading data infrastructure
Current project
R&D: Making it easier to create open standards for data
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Leigh Dodds
- Miranda Marcus
Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data
Previous project, Startup programme
OpenActive: Getting the nation active
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Richard Norris
The Open Data Institute and Sport England are working together to improve and open up information about physical activity and sporting opportunities across England
Current project
Open banking: setting a standard and enabling innovation
- Banking and finance
- Open standards and open APIs
- David Beardmore
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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