As long as I’ve been in the Civil Service there has always been an assumption that ‘it’ll be quieter over the summer’ but it has never proven to be the case. 2013 is no exception as departments are currently working …
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1. Working toward a National Information Infrastructure
The INSPIRE Directive is now well into its implementation phase and an approach to maintaining the various specifications has been agreed. The Commission recognises the need to retain the expertise that has built up within the community in the development …
[This blog also appeared in the Open data Blog - http://openviz.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/announcing-the-new-and-improved-opendatacommunities/] This week, the Department for Communities and Local Government has launched new data content, and important new features in its OpenDataCommunities service. The improvements are focused on three main areas: Helping us …
Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of our new ‘hub’ for all of our open data – data.police.uk. Following best practice and principles set out by the Open Data Institute, we’ve made a number of improvements to the …
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