Operating Framework: an update from the T&D Board&

National Standards

Anne MoisesChief Information Officer

Scottish Government

Commitment in Scotland’s Digital Future – Delivery of Public Services Strategy to support transformation through

• providing a set of architecture and design principles

• promoting and supporting the use of commonly agreed standards and specifications

• an information assurance approach

High Level Operating Framework (HLOF)

Supports collaboration and integration with a focus on:

reuse before buy before build Helps to eliminate duplication and avoidable spend Development and adoption led through national and

sectoral governance arrangements (for example LG ICT Strategy Board)

Provides guidance to the public sector and the ICT Industry on design of future internal and external digital public services

High Level Operating Framework (HLOF)

Update to HLOF - January 2015

Summary of Findings following consultation across Public Sector Overall support for a cross-sector framework Support for shared ownership of its development and use HLOF should be about ‘delivery of services’ Range of views as to what it should contain and be presented

very different perspectives required for various audiences Principles of HLOF already being used in more mature sectors but other

sectors have low awareness HLOF needs to be part of appropriate governance within sectors Confusion as to coverage – citizen facing ICT services or internal ICT

services (especially identity & access management) Need clarity on Common Reference Model and Maturity Model

Update to HLOF - January 2015

Key Conclusions for Update HLOF addresses a number of dimensions at the same time so focus

and practical application to be clearer Relevance and adoption rate of HLOF principles varies with maturity All sectors need a basic level of understanding of the architecture

discipline Generic, logical reference model is essential to create a common

vocabulary Defining a Scottish Public Sector ‘whole of enterprise’ Reference

Model at next level of detail will be a challenge Some form of ‘ideal’ state is required - what does good look like Maturity Model or decision support model to help travel in the right

direction

Main Changes

Not a single national architecture Generic and Ideal Services Models Agreed National Standards Added

– MyGov.scot; – Myaccount; – Data Centre & Hosting Strategy; – SWAN

Process for recommending and endorsing National Standards

Additional Architectural Principles:– Architecture Approach Required– Architecture Skills to be increased– Use of Open Standards and Open Source

Software– Use of federated identity management– Federated Design Authority Model

Repository / register of Re-usable Components

Principles

Generic Services Model

Standards, Guidelines,

Recommendations

‘Ideal’ Services Model

Repository ofRe-usable

Components

Federated Governance

Approach

High Level Operating

Framework

Enabling Actions• Actions within other

National Programmes on which HLOF is dependent

• Specific actions to develop or maintain HLOF

• Governed by T&D Board

HLOF – The future Federated approach to governance and ownership

is essential Shared ownership and responsibility for

maintaining currency & relevance This is a living, breathing operational framework Over time, this is the direction all Public Sector

has to travel

Open Document Standards

BackgroundOpen Standards for preserving, sharing and

viewing all government documents announced by the Cabinet Office in July 2014,

applies to UK Central Government not wider public sector

UK Government departments publishing implementation plans

UK Government Standards For sharing or collaborating on government documents:

– Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.2 (or later).– ODF version 1.1 may be used for transition to the implementation

of ODF 1.2.

For viewing government documents, standards to be used are:– HTML5; and – PDF/A-1 ISO/IEC 19005-1:2005 and

PDF/A-2 ISO/IEC 19005-2:2011 (document management - electronic document file formats for long-term preservation)

Scottish Government Actions T & D Board seeking the Scottish Public Sector

views on the implementation of similar standards in Scotland

Spread the word – no commitment yet to implement Short life working group set up to examine and look

at issues Consulting across all sectors Decide on the way forward

Request to SOCITM to share your viewsWho is already using ODF?What requests are you having for ODF?What publication issues do you see using ODF?What challenges do you see with ODF?

(desktop, inter-system dependencies, etc…..) 

Background Information on Standards

The announcement concerning open document formats is live here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs

 

Information about the standards are published here:  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government .

 

The Standards Hub has been updated:  http://standards.data.gov.uk/ 

Mike Bracken's post on the GDS blog is here:  https://gds.blog.gov.uk/

And last but not least here are a selection of published implementation plans or confirmed policies:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defra-plan-software-for-open-document-formats/defra-plan-office-productivity-tools-for-handling-open-document-formats

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-and-open-standards-for-document-formats/hm-treasury-and-open-formats-for-documents

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfids-plan-for-migrating-document-types-to-open-standards-format

Questions