Clients
- Cabinet Office e-Government Unit
- Department for Constitutional Affairs
- Department for Education and Skills
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Learning and Skills Council
- Microsoft
- Ministry of Defence
- National Westminster Bank
- NHS Information Authority
- NHS in Scotland
- Office of Government Commerce
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Office of the e-Envoy
- Open University
- SchlumbergerSema
- Scottish Executive
Courses
- Hands-on XML Within the e-GIF
- XML and e-GIF - a Management Overview
- The Election Markup Language (EML)
We can tailor our courses to your exact requirements
EML
Paul Spencer is an active member of the OASIS Technical Committee, and developed the XML Schemas for EML and the means of customising the schemas for various types of elections. He also developed the customisations for UK public election pilots and for the online electoral registers (CORE) project.
Papers
- From Spreadsheet to Schema
- A Technical Standard for e-Voting
- Combining OASIS Standards to Create a Repository and Assembly Mechanism for XML Schema Components
- The Election Markup Language
- e-Government in the UK
- Developing e-GIF Compliant XML Systems For Government
- e-Government in the UK
- XML: the relevance to e-government
- Using XML in Government
- Delivering New Electronic Services in the Public Sector
- e-Gov and XML Government Advanced Technology
- Delivering New Electronic Services in the Public Sector
Books
- XML for the Web
- Professional XSL
- Beginning XML
- Professional XML Design and Implementation
Who we are
Boynings Consulting Limited is a dedicated XML consultancy providing strategic advice, developing policies and standards and helping ensure successful implementation for Government and the private sector. We are experts in the standards used by Governments, specifically the UK Government, and have contributed to the development of many of these standards on behalf of the Government and standards bodies such as OASIS. As well as strategy, we often provide advice for individual projects, contribute to data standards and the resulting XML schemas and provide training so that internal staff can continue the work.
e-GIF Expert
On 11 May 2005, Paul Spencer, Director of Boynings Consulting, became the first person to be certified as an Expert Practitioner for the e-Government Interoperability Framework by the e-GIF Accreditation Authority. If you require e-GIF expertise, or need to demonstrate this expertise to a client in the public sector, there is no better place to come - and that's official!
Experience
Paul Spencer is supported by a variety of skilled individual associates and by relationships with companies such as Security and Standards. He advises several Government departments in the UK and overseas. He has written and co-written several books on XML and speaks on XML and e-Government at international conferences.
Training
Paul Spencer provides training on the use of XML, concentrating specifically on the implementation of XML within Government. This training is aimed at Government departments, devolved authorities, agencies, local authorities and suppliers to Government and can be tailored to specific needs. In this training, Paul speaks from experience since he contributed to many of the standards being used and advised the Government Gateway development team on its use of XML. The course "Hands-on XML Within the e-GIF" has been accredited by the e-GIF Accreditation Authority and so attendance helps individuals towards e-GIF certification.
Recent work
Our most recent work has been in two main areas. Having been core to the development of the OASIS Election Markup Language, we are involved in the application of this to the UK Co-ordinated Online Record of Electors project. We are also developing the upgrade of EML from version 4 to version 5. Our other main area of work has been the development and implementation of data standards in the education sector.
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