The INSPIRE regulations provide a framework that describes how datasets that fall within specified categories should be published. This describes both how the data should be presented (data specifications) and how they should be accessed (view and download services – …
Department for Transport - Our Open Data/Transparency Story Following the Coalition Government’s formation in May 2010 there was a seeming blitz of policy initiatives coming from the Cabinet Office, Transparency, Open Data, Empowering Consumers, MiData………most of which seemed to …
Overcoming the incompatibility of statistical and geographic information systems At first glance, publishing statistical data has always appeared to sit quite nicely with the principles of data transparency. Statistics are all about taking an observation and linking it to other …
On the same day we publish the Open Data White Paper and Open Data Strategies for all government Departments, we’re launching our collection of over one hundred case studies on how Open Data is being used. Gathered from across the …
As many of our users would have noticed, there has been recently an increase in the number of spam being posted as comments or forum topics across the site. We are well on top of the situation and are working …
Speaking on behalf of the members of the UK Transparency Board to the OKFN Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw this morning Professor Nigel Shadbolt said:- There’s now just a...
Cabinet Office launched a public consultation on Making Open Data Real on 4 August, and this will be closing on 27 October – a week or so left. Here are some quick thoughts from the team about why it is …
As part of our continuing commitment to open up public services, the Prime Minister today committed the Government to publishing key data on the National Health Service, schools, criminal courts and transport. This represents the most ambitious open data agenda …
We have updated the front page of the site to give access to some tools that let you explore some key datasets we have released. This followed on from feedback about how we can make public data more useful, and …
The following guest blog post was written by Steve Peters and is kindly reproduced here. Please let us know your thoughts and comments in the usual way, via the comments section at the end of the post. Disclaimer: the views …
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