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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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