These 'standards case studies' are part of our guidebook Open Standards for Data. They provide a summary of the history, development process, governance and key actors involved in the development of an open standard for data.
The following case studies were written as part of the research for our reports on the approaches to development and adopting open standards for data.We selected these standards because they different types of standard, developed by different types of standards organisation. We feel they reflect some of the variety of approaches taken in standards development.