Quality and accuracy

Resources to help ensure that any data an organisation collects, uses or shares meets requisite standards and is fit for purpose

ODI Open Data Certificate

• This certificate verifies publisher best practice, so organisations can use data with confidence.

• The process of working to attain the certificate can help organisations build their trustworthiness while the certificate itself can help demonstrate trustworthiness. Through verifying open data with a mark of trust, organisations can increase the trust in, and quality of, their data.

• This certificate is for publishers, consumers and technology providers using open data.

Open Standards for Data Guidebook and Data Standards workshop

• This guidebook, and workshop offering (run by the ODI, contact for more information), helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.
• Through having a thorough understanding of open data standards and how to use them, organisations can improve the quality and accuracy of the data they publish and steward.

• This guidebook is for a variety of users – including policy leads, domain experts and technologists – interested in developing open standards.