ODI Lunchtime Talk, Creating an open register – what it takes and why
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Transcript of ODI Lunchtime Talk, Creating an open register – what it takes and why
Paul DowneyRegistersGovernment Digital Service @psd
Registers: boring, but necessary
“Keep your vision big and your practical ideas small”
— @dasbarrett
Government
User research is such sweet sorrow!
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-sector-organisations-eligible-to-use-cloudstore
Theodore Burton Fox Ruoff
The mirror principle— the register of title should reflect, accurately and completely, and beyond all argument, the facts that are material to the title
The curtain principle— the public register should be the sole and definitive source of information for proposing purchasers, but not reveal sensitive information
The insurance principle— if, as a result of human error, the title is proved to be defective in any way, then the person or persons suffering loss as a result must be able to claim compensation
Towards a digital ecosystem
So how can we help make better services, across government, for less?
Knock down the Towers of SIAM
Good services are verbs, registers are nouns
companies, charities, trade unions, courts, schools, universities, hospitals, zoos, circuses, inspections, licences, certificates, births, marriages, deaths, electoral roll, insolvencies, bankruptcies, passports, addresses, streets, animal passports, drivers, vehicles, land parcels, land ownership, land use, legal boundaries, awards, tax rates, benefits, livestock movements, flood risk, river levels, trusts, fish caught, patents, trademarks, designs, non-native invasive plants, bank holidays, clock changes …
https://data.blog.gov.uk/
2016/09/12/registers-in-a-digital-ecosystem/
“SCOLAND UK” “SCOTALND UK” “SCOTKLAND UK” “SCOTLAD UK” “SCOTLAND” “SCOTLAND UK” “SCOTLAND UK” “SCOTLAND UNITED KINGDO” “SCOTLAND UNITED KINGDOM” “SCOTLAND UNITED KINGODM” “SCOTLAND, UK”
Registers: authoritative lists you can trust
https://country.register.gov.uk/item/sha-256:c45bd0b47…
Let’s make things better, one list at a time
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/11/getting-from-data-to-registers/
https://data.blog.gov.uk/2016/10/24/how-registers-emerge/
Building a service to establish registers
https://theodi.org/lunchtime-lectures/friday-lunchtime-lecture-creating-a-web-of-cats
Characteristics of a register
Registers are canonical and have a clear reason for their existence
Registers represent a ‘minimum viable dataset’
history pages
Registers are live lists, not simply published data
Registers use standard names consistently with other registers
company:07228130 charity:122331 school-eng:1020334
“business” identifier
www.gov.uk/guidance/current-crown-commercial-service-suppliers-what-you-need-to-know
Registers are able to prove integrity of record
Legislation demands a certain level of commitment from goats, calves and sheep
My precious!
Data matures like wine
Technology
Matures like fish
Merkle-tree magic
Psychic paper
Registers are clearly categorised as open, shared or private
Registers contain raw not derived data
Registers must have a custodian
Feedback
Do the hard work to make it simple
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/registers-guidance
Paul Downey Technical ArchitectGovernment Digital
