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  • Overview
  • Introduction
    • What are open standards?
    • Types of open standards for data
    • Using open standards for data
    • When not to create a new standard
  • Value and Open Standards
    • Getting started
    • Economic impacts
    • Technological impacts
    • Spotlight: evaluating the need for open standards
  • Adopting Open Standards
    • Finding open standards
    • Choosing an open standard
  • Creating Open Standards
    • About creating open standards
    • The standards lifecycle
    • First steps
    • Scoping and starting
    • Development
    • Building community
    • Launch and adoption
    • Spotlight: supporting adoption of the OpenActive standards
  • Stewarding Open Standards
    • About stewarding open standards
    • Review
    • Governance
    • Roles and Responsibilities
    • Update or Retire
  • Useful Tools
    • Ecosystem Mapping
    • Open Standards for Data Canvas
    • Outputs and Activities Checklist
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  1. Creating Open Standards

Building community

This section provides an understanding of how to build community when developing open standards

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Peer networks

Peer networks are a popular way of developing leadership and sharing knowledge across communities.

In the process of developing this toolkit we were able to bring together a diverse set of people working with open standards for data. The insight generated from those discussions demonstrated the value of encouraging more peer networking across that community.

In this section of the site we showcase some of the organisations and individuals developing or supporting open standards for data.

Who can I work with?

A variety of organisations currently support the development and adoption of open standards for data. This section profiles some of those organisations and how they can support you.

There are many organisations working to develop open standards for data. Some are international or national standards bodies. Others are smaller organisations working within specific sectors.

These organisations can help you . They can also provide advice to help you to extend an existing standard to support new requirements.

If you have then an experienced organisation can help you by guiding its and driving .

Some organisations may also help to host your standards work by providing collaboration tools and an intellectual property framework. For example the W3C provides to help organisations across different sectors to collaborate around standards. A list of which organisations you can work with can be found in the .

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