Sue Bateman, Chief Data Officer at Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) discusses DataConnect23 following its launch event on 23 May 2023.
As data architects across government, you are interested in both enterprise and technical principles and particularly continuous improvement, so as Chief Data Officer for the Office For National Statistics (ONS), I wanted to share some, hopefully relevant and useful, insights …
The Office for National Statistics’ Classifications Team in partnership with the Data Standards Authority (DSA) have created a Taxonomy Oversight Group (TOG), which is made up of a community of cross-government and public sector experts to address the lack of …
How we’ve enhanced our Standard Occupational Classification to help better understand the UK jobs market. The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) is a framework used to classify occupations according to skill level and specialisation. It assigns all jobs a four-digit code …
Metadata. Everyone agrees we should have it, but in the busy worlds we operate in it’s the first thing labelled as “good to have” but not essential. This is dangerous as government departments gather economy-driven information, which, in order to …
The Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are working closely with government departments to improve how we manage and maintain data. The Government Transformation Strategy published in 2017 had a whole section on making better …
Who needs Data Architecture? Anniversaries are a time of reflection, so it’s natural to look to the past before we start thinking about the future. For me that means thinking about the last year working as the Data Architecture lead …
Data governance is important, it provides the ability to manage the life cycle of data through the implementation of policies, processes and rules in accordance with the organisation's strategic objectives. The allocation of owners One of the tasks that concerns …
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