Government Data Standards
Background
To promote interdisciplinary data exchange and consolidation and develop innovative application services, government agencies set data standards for various fields. By designating standard formats for data in the same field, government agencies can follow those standards when conducting interdisciplinary data exchanges, making data more easily read and consolidated. Thus, data flow, exchange, and users' value-added applications can be made more convenient.
Lead agencies to formulate field data standards
Promote government data standards and transform data into more valuable resources through unified standards to achieve widespread application to all levels of society. The Ministry analyzes relevant international data standards, sets up the "Field Data Standards Formulation Procedure Guideline", and leads various ministries to establish and promote field standards. Enhance practical applications through the establishment of data standard platform with all field data standards, and discover high value data standards with public benefits and economic value among those field data standards to accelerate data exchange and integration effectiveness; furthermore, regular education and training is provided to strengthen agency users' awareness of data standards and improve their professional skills.
Data Standard Validation Tool
Apart from setting up data standards in various fields, the Government Data Standards Platform also focus on the quality and consistency of data to effectively promote data standards, provide APIs to access data standards, and design data standard verification tools to enable easy data verification, data query and value-added data application.
Introduction of the Platform
To aid all sectors in querying field data standards set by the government, the Ministry has built the "Government Data Standards Platform" (schema.gov.tw), which lists each field's data standards in one place and gradually creates a more comprehensive environment for data flow and exchange. The platform's main features are briefly described as follows:
- Front page: provides lists of latest uploaded data standards, recently updated data standards, popular fields, and links to relevant websites.
- Federated search: provides a keyword search for data standard lists or content from the Open Data Codes section.
- Fields page: provides a list of fields with existing data standards and view tallies.
- Schema List page: provides data standard detail, data standard verification, and URI download.
- API Service page: to facilitate system program access, the page provides various data standards' property information such as update time, field, subject, category, data name, and data type in the machine-readable JSON format.
- News page: provides the latest platform news and information on data standard updates.