This week we have launched a revamped system for publishing data on staff roles and salaries across government departments, agencies and other bodies. This ‘organogram’ data shows the hierarchy of senior civil servants, their pay and responsibilities. Junior staff are …
An improved way to search the Contracts Finder Archive has just been released by the data.gov.uk team. This will help users when searching in this archive of contracts, which covers public sector contracts put out for tender and/or awarded during …
As the scale of data published on data.gov.uk increases, publishers often need to manage hundreds of datasets. As a result of this we've gradually added different reports to help them stay abreast. And of course these are all open to …
Last week we had a blitz of tidying the data.gov.uk catalogue, focussing on data in time series. We've not been happy for a while that data that is released as monthly updates is sometimes added to data.gov.uk as separate datasets. …
data.gov.uk is announcing the launch of new 'harvesters' to help public bodies add their datasets to data.gov.uk in bulk. In particular this helps Local Authorities who are publishing data to their local websites to also automatically list those datasets on …
Data.gov.uk proudly announces: 'Data.gov.uk To Go' - a package containing the software for the well-known open data website Data.gov.uk. This allows other governments and open data communities to quickly install and customize a full open data website and develop it further in partnership with the worldwide …
Today we've enhanced our Site Usage pages, introducing graphs and data download measurement. This highlights the datasets that are attracting most interest in each month and shows how the site is doing in terms of overall metrics, such as total …
Every dataset gets rated against Tim Berners-Lee's 5 Stars of Openness using an algorithm that has to cope with a number of technical challenges. For example it is relatively simple to check a link works, but how do you tell apart …
data.gov.uk continues to open up large quantities of data that was previously closed. Government data has become 'open by default' and the site has grown from the initial 1000 datasets to an amazing 8000 - one of the most successful open …
We're often asked what technology is behind data.gov.uk since the excitement of open data has spread far round the world. The short answer is that we use two open source products: CKAN for the data catalogue and Drupal for the blogs, forums, comments etc.
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