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Quality Assurance of Standards
The LeGSB Quality Assurance service.
Relevance:
The Quality Assurance service can be applied to
- A Data or Message format e.g. a Schema, Web Service
- A Controlled List e.g. a vocabulary.
Minimum information to be provided by the ‘Custodian’.
- The Standard. E.g The Schema
- The business case describing the purpose for which the standard is to be applied.
Further Information that can be supplied by the ‘Custodian’.
- Each of the categories of Information from the LeGSB Standards Catalogue
In particular …
- Copyright and Licensing arrangements.
- Are there Regional or Language variations or special considerations?
- What might occur that would trigger a revision to the standard?
- What future developments can be predicted?
- What standards ( if any ) does this standard conform to?
- Other completed or proposed potential Standards that overlap the scope of this standard?
- Other Standards that can be used with this Standard
- How are suppliers of relevant products being engaged with the standard?
The aspects of a standard are reviewed in the Assurance process.
Schemas
Conformance with GovTalk rules.
- Schema Developer Guidelines
- Includes
Syntax
Metadata
Versioning
Namespace
Capitalisation
Use of elements and attributes
Appropriate use of pre-existing data types
- Government Data Standards Catalogue
- Various Type Libraries in use across Local Government
Encoding schemes
- Reference to appropriate controlled lists.
Sanity Check.
- E.g. why use XML, RDF might be more appropriate.
Controlled Lists
Conformance to relevant standards on the structuring of content
Availability in a range of formats ( machine readable, human readable )
Relationship to other existing lists.
- Overlap
- Opportunity for mapping.
- Methodologies used for mapping.
Version Control
General
The suitability of
- Governance arrangements
- Business case
- Sustainability model.
Outputs
The output of the LeGSB Standards Assurance process will be
- A short summary of the findings of the process in the terms listed above.
- A detailed report of the findings of the process.
- A set of recommendations of areas to address.
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