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