The "Publishing grant data" guidance has been updated to ensure alignment to the current 360Giving brand and the work that 360Giving do. Changes include updating of the 360Giving name throughout (previously was "ThreeSixtyGiving"), updating hyperlinks to ensure the correct webpages are linked, and enhancing the information provided in bullet points throughout.

Updated "Collect, use and exchange beneficial ownership information" to reflect the release of version 0.3.0 of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS).

Added "Collect, use and exchange beneficial ownership information" and "Record and share information about public services in local authorities" attachments

PDFs on GOV.UK must either become HTML, or have an HTML or other OpenDocument version to meet accessibility standards.

Addition of new profile for 'Identifying property and street information'. Please note that the publication date for this profile will appear on all the profiles but there are no changes to any other profiles at this time.

The open standards profile for 'Publishing contract data' has been rewritten into plain English. There are no changes to the content or the standard. Please note that the new publishing date will appear on all of the open standards profiles, but these have not been changed at this time.

The open standards profile for 'Formatting date and times in data' has been rewritten into plain English. There are no changes to the content or the standard. Please note that the new publishing date will appear on all of the open standards profiles, but these have not been changed at this time.

The open standards profiles for 'Encoding characters' has been rewritten into plain English. There are no changes to the content or the standard. Please note that the new publishing date will appear on all of the open standards profiles, but these have not been changed at this time.

The open standards profiles for 'Exchange cyber threat intelligence', 'Publishing grant data' and 'Use consistent country codes' have been rewritten into plain English. There are no changes to the content or the standards. Please note that the new publishing date will appear on all of the open standards profiles, but these have not been changed at this time.

The open standards profiles for 'Exchange of location point', 'Sharing or collaborating with government documents' and 'Tag content with international language codes' have been rewritten into plain English. There are no changes to the content or the standards. Please note that the new publishing date will appear on all of the open standards profiles, but these have not been changed at this time.

The MAIT open standards profile has been rewritten into plain English. There is no change to the content or the standard. Please note that the new publishing date will appear on all of the open standards profiles, but these have not been changed at this time.

Publishing job vacancies has been rewritten into plain English. There is no change to the content or the standard. Please note that the new publishing date will appear on all of the open standards profiles, but these have not changed at this time.

Rewrite of Publishing international development data into plain English Rewrite of Publishing government documents into plain English with addition of information about PDF/A

Re-write of the profile for exchange of contact information into plain English.

Content for the Calendar Exchange profile rewritten for clarity.

Addition of the profile for the open standards STIX 2 and TAXII 2. These standards are for analysing and sharing intelligence between government departments, industry and international partners.

Addition of the open standard 'Data standard for grant making' recently approved for use in government by the Open Standards Board.

Updated language for greater clarity.

We now use Unicode 11 as the standard for character encoding.

Updating the Unicode standard for cross platform character encoding

Addition of the approved Time and Date standard for use by the government.

This page was updated to reflect clarification recommendation that were suggested on [Alphagov open standards page](https://github.com/alphagov/open-standards/issues/48)

Open contracting data standard changed from OCDS V 1.0 to OCDS V 1.1.

Open contracting data standard added.

Added open standards for international development data

Added publishing vacancies online standards profile and multi agency incident transfer.

Added standard: exchange of location point

Added open standards for country codes and language tags

Added open standards for sharing calendar events and contacts information.

Added 2 new standards: Viewing government documents and Sharing or collaborating with government documents.

First published.