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vCard and iCalendar are now government open standards

Posted by: Paul Downey, Posted on: 31 October 2014 - Categories: Open standards

The Open Standards Board has adopted RFC 5545 (iCalendar) and RFC 6350 (vCard) as open standards for government.

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Volunteers wanted for the Open Standards Board

Posted by: Magnus Falk, Posted on: 15 October 2014 - Categories: Open standards

In the Open Standards Principles we said that we’d set up an Open Standards Board to help us to decide which open standards to use in government IT. You can find out more about current Board members and the excellent …

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Getting to grips with document formats

Posted by: Linda Humphries, Posted on: 7 October 2014 - Categories: Open standards

I’ve got one of those sorts of problems that is nice to have. One that shows me that there is energy and passion to do things right in government.

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Unlocking government documents

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 23 July 2014 - Categories: Open standards
Linda Humphries and Zaheda Bhorat

Linda Humphries, Head of Open Standards in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, talks us through what the announcement about document formats means for Technology Leaders in government.

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