
Standards and practices
Setting the right standards and working practices can enable your teams to deliver quality outcomes. Learn what has worked for others and see what you can introduce in your government transformation programs.
Standards for digital services
Technical standards
PublicCode.yml
Italy
publiccode.yml is a metadata standard for repositories containing open source software, aimed at making them easily discoverable and reusable by other entities. The standard is interoperable internationally.
Government of Canada Standards on APIs
Canada
Canadian government’s standards on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which govern how APIs are to be developed across the Government of Canada to better support integrated digital processes across departments and agencies.
API technical and data standards (v2 - 2019)
United Kingdom
UK government’s guidance on Application Programming Interface (API) shared standards.
API Standards
United States
US government’s guidance on Application Programming Interface (API) standards that capture the General Services Administration’s recommended best practices, conventions, and standards for APIs.
Best practices for government transformation programs
Ways of working for digital teams
British Columbia content design and strategy
ONS Visualisation Guidance
Service Manual
Buying and hiring
Open Contracting Data Standards prototype…
Agile digital and IT projects: clarification…
Digital Buying Guide
TechFAR Handbook
Conducting user research
User Research Library
Making accessible services
W3C Web Content Accessibility…
U.S. Accessibility Program - Section 508
Designing for the web
Terms
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