Skip to main content
GOV.UK
Blog Data
Organisations:
Government Digital Service

Notification on purdah

Posted by: Oliver Buckley, Posted on: 31 March 2015 - Categories: Government

As many of our readers and contributors will be aware, the General Election on May 7th is approaching and the UK civil service is now going into purdah. Purdah is the several weeks before an election when the essential business of …

Read more of Notification on purdah

Health datasets on the NII

Posted by: Chris Hutchins, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Health

Data from health and social care has been identified as a case study by ODUG to illustrate how the refreshed NII might well look. It has also been selected as one of three exemplar areas to prototype the new framework. …

Read more of Health datasets on the NII

EC call for metadata experts to develop GeoDCAT-AP

Posted by: John Dixon, Posted on: 26 March 2015 - Categories: Environment, Linked data, Location, Policy

The European Commission has put out a call inviting metadata experts who directly or indirectly work on data portals hosting spatial data to participate in a new Working Group to develop the GeoDCAT-AP specification.  GeoDCAT-AP will make it easier to …

Read more of EC call for metadata experts to develop GeoDCAT-AP

Open Data Champions

Posted by: Oliver Buckley, Posted on: 24 March 2015 - Categories: Linked data

When we set out on a journey towards greater transparency, our focus was squarely on getting data out of government and into the hands of citizens. We worked with central government departments to support commitments set out in their Open …

Read more of Open Data Champions

Progress on the National Information Infrastructure Project

Posted by: Paul Maltby, Posted on: 24 March 2015 - Categories: Policy

Data is the backdrop to our lives, and we are growing more dependent on it every day. In our personal lives, location data connects us with restaurants, parks and events, while our to do lists and emails keep us on …

Read more of Progress on the National Information Infrastructure Project - 1 comment

Four challenges for the future of Open Data

Posted by: Giuseppe Sollazzo, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Government, Policy

With Purdah rapidly approaching, and the current ODUG mandate finishing at the end of May, the time is ripe for a reflection on what lies ahead for the Open Data Agenda. I'm fresh from giving a keynote at a conference …

Read more of Four challenges for the future of Open Data - 1 comment

Using Open Data to really save on energy bills

Posted by: Paul Maylon, Posted on: 11 March 2015 - Categories: Open Data

The media has been consistently full of stories in recent months and years focussed on the fluctuating price of energy – whether it be diesel for our haulage industry or gas and electricity for our homes, the cost of these …

Read more of Using Open Data to really save on energy bills

Review the Open Data Maturity model

Posted by: Alexander Coley, Posted on: 5 March 2015 - Categories: Administration

Defra’s Open Data & Transparency (OD&T) team is working with the Open Data Institute (ODI) to develop a Maturity Model to help public bodies to better understand their open data maturity. The maturity model that will help organisations assess their …

Read more of Review the Open Data Maturity model - 1 comment

Related content and links

This blog is now archived

You can read about how we're using performance analysis and data science in government on the cross-government data blog.

Categories

Follow us

  • Twitter

Recent Posts

  • This blog is now archived
  • Data Science Accelerator now open for applications
  • The Data Science Accelerator: pensions, patient journeys and predicting public order
  • Using Machine Learning at The Pensions Regulator
  • Introducing the register of government service domains

Recent Comments

  • Phil Allen on Building data infrastructure for personal data
  • Tony Hirst on The Data Science Accelerator: pensions, patient journeys and predicting public order
  • narsing on Developing a government data science sandbox
  • Paul Downey on The register of government organisations is now in alpha
  • peter wells on The register of government organisations is now in alpha

Archives

  • October 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • May 2016
  • March 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • February 2012
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009

Categories

  • Administration
  • Blog
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Ethics
  • Data Infrastructure
  • Data Leaders
  • Data Leaders Network
  • Data Policy
  • Data Science
  • Data Sharing
  • Data.gov.uk
  • Education
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Environment
  • Global Open Data Index
  • Government
  • Government
  • Government Data Programme
  • Health
  • Health
  • Institute for Government
  • Linked data
  • Linked data
  • Location
  • Location
  • Making better use of data
  • Open Data
  • Open Data Barometer
  • Open Data Institute
  • Open Government Partnership
  • Policy
  • Policy
  • Public Service
  • Registers
  • Society
  • Society
  • Spend Data
  • Transparency
  • Transportation
  • Transportation

Comments and moderation

Read our guidelines

Useful links

  • All GOV.UK blogs
  • All GOV.UK blog posts
  • GOV.UK
  • All departments
  • Accessibility statement
  • Cookies
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated
© Crown copyright