The Data Standards Directory - development update 16th December 2022

Dear all, please find a link to the latest development weekly update highlighting the work we have delivered in the last week and what we intend to do next week.

And just like that, last update of the year. We have been carrying out handovers to say goodbye for now to our Marvell-ous partners at Marvell Consulting. We even managed to discuss how we will manage tags going forward and changed our Github (where our code that powers the site is shared) branch name from master to main (see why this is important in this article and please action this).

3 and a half months and we've reached some big round numbers at the end of 2022.

Let's take a look what's under the direct-tree..

● Reached over 1000 users!

● 10,000 views of the site!

● Google and Bing indexing of 130 standards now complete

● 25 standards and counting.. picked up by Google dataset search

And here is a recap of the year

January

• The service passed the GDS Alpha assessment

• Naming workshop conducted with key stakeholders

February

• Designs developed and tested for the standards' roadmap 

 March

• Homepage redesigned to be more browse and search-based

April

• Tested the prototype using live data 

May

• Continual improvements to search and filtering behaviour 

June

• Roadmap (future standards) is built

• Presented early notifications journey to the NHS Design Huddle, a community-wide session for feedback and design crit

July

•The service passed the GDS Private Beta Assessment 

August

• Bharat 'buh-rut' Sharma (me!), new in-house product manager joins the team

September

• Data Standards Directory is launched!

• Katie Wheatley , Senior Metadata Knowledge Manager, joins the team

October

• Launch of roadmap and first blog post, Discovering data standards together

• Metadata review group kick-off meeting

November

• Knowledge handover of product management and content design

December

• Knowledge handover of development, research and design

• Launch of second blog post How content design helped to frame a new service around NHS data standards

I'd like to end by thanking all the team at Marvell Consulting for their work and support over their time to getting us to public beta. We look forward to expressing our vision and direction in the new year.

And on to 2023!

• New development supplier coming to work with us
• Working with new user research agency to explore taxonomies
• Adding new standards and quality checks around web and technology
• More signposting, partnerships and relationship building
• Advocating use of a single specification for use in all ‘standards directories’
• Providing a view of conversations and knowledge around standards
• Implementing a view of applicable standards to meet the provider license 

That's a wrap!..

Please do continue to test out data.standards.nhs.uk and let us know any feedback we can use to plan further improvements.

Do you want to attend our 2 weekly show and tells? Let me know and I can get you on our distribution list in 2023.

Many thanks,

Bharat ‘buh-rut’ Sharma (he/him)

Senior Product Manager of data.standards.nhs.uk - the ‘Standards Directory’

Standards and Interoperability Team england.interop.standards@nhs.net

Chief Technology Office