The National Archives have a new post, taken from on their PSI Perspectives blog that looks at the future of licensing government-created works and data. Below are the key details pertinent to data.gov.uk The UK Government is developing the next …
The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was established by the Prime Minister, met yesterday for the first time. The Board will drive forward the Government’s transparency agenda, making it a core part of all government business and ensuring that all …
Lisa Evans is the Lead Researcher on Where Does My Money Go? an independent non-partisan project run by the Open Knowledge Foundation to analyze and visualize UK public spending. Where Does My Money Go? makes government spending and finances understandable …
The Treasury recognises the complexity of the coding used in the COINS data that have been released. It is organising a short seminar on 2 July from 0930 to 1230 aimed at developers and others that are using the released …
Following the release on 4 June by the Treasury of data from the Combined Online Information System (COINS) for 2008-2010 further data covering the years 2005-2008 is today being made available through data.gov.uk.
As part of the Prime Minister’s Transparency initiative, the Treasury has today taken the unprecedented step of publishing data from the Combined Online Information System (COINS) for 2008-09 and 2009-10 through data.gov.uk. Comprising millions of lines, this is the most …
The Prime Minister has announced a radical plan to open up Government data to the public.
Over the election period we have been continuing our work behind the scenes based on your feedback, and we are launching a number of new features to data.gov.uk which we hope improves the site for you.
We have put up a few new blog posts in the past few days about things we have been doing.
Firstly, there is a summary of the second meeting of the Local Public Data Panel, with access to the papers from these meetings including discussion papers on the Open Local Election Data Project and Standards for Local Public Data.
We’re really passionate about our work here at data.gov.uk, and as part of our program to ensure we’re bringing the community the services and data you want, we spend some time finding interesting events and conferences to spread the open data message to, and highlight how we can help with the open data government is providing on data.gov.uk. In the last month we have met the community at some really exciting events.
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