Defining an Open Platform

The Apperta Foundation is a not-for-profit community interest company supported by NHS England and NHS Digital (HSCIC). They recently published a document called Defining an Open Platform to "make the case for open platforms and lay out a blueprint for an open platform architecture at a level of detail that would allow any willing party to build a first generation implementation of an open platform that would be interoperable with any other".

The document is a PDF. Commenting on the document is handled by User Voice.

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Goals

• open source the document
• add discussion thingummy

Getting started

• fork the repo and clone it
• open the PDF and pick a section of the document to convert
• make a new page in docs/_docs for the section you have chosen by duplicating template.md
• using the text files in source_files copy and paste the text from the relevant pages into the new document

Sections TODO

• cover-and-filler-pages
• foreword
• about-apperta
• contents_pages
• executive-summary
• introduction
• why-an-open-platform
• proposed-definition-of-an-open-platform
• open-platform-architecture
• platform-services
• standards-for-an-open-platform
• information-governance-and-cyber-security
• minimum-viable-open-platform
• implementing-an-open-platform-ecosystem
• conclusion
• acknowledgements
• references

References

Here is a good reference for How to Convert a PDF File to Editable Text Using the Command Line in Linux. That reference helped me to quickly extract the text from each page of the PDF to a file, like so:

for i in {1..48}; do pdftotext -f $i -l $i Apperta_Defining_an_Open_Platform_SP.pdf Apperta_Defining_an_Open_Platform_SP-nolayout-p$i.txt; done

Licenses

• Jekyll Doc Theme by @aksakalli is released under the MIT license.
• The license adopted by the Apperta Foundation for the 'Defining an Open Platform' document is unknown.