How registers emerge
...of the Registers Design Authority is to devise the service and standards to enable a large number of custodians to establish registers. We also assure registers’ compliance with these standards....
Data Infrastructure
What we’ve learnt so far about how users find and use data
We recently shared what we've learned so far about how government data is published. This has already helped us think about how we can improve the way we do this, but we still want to know more about users at …
Introducing the register history page: tracking a register’s creation
A few months ago, we published some guidance on GOV.UK that explains how registers are created. We did this to meet what was a previously unfulfilled user need. We often...
Meet the custodian: alpha territory register
...(FCO) second register - the territory register - is now in alpha too. The territory register’s custodian, Tony Worron, has kindly shared his experience of going through the register creation...
Improving government organogram data
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 …
What we discovered about how government data is published
We want more citizens and businesses to find open government data - and for that data to be as useful as possible. Our users have told us that problems with the quality of the data available through data.gov.uk mean that …
Registers in a digital ecosystem
...record, and nothing else. It never duplicates data held in other registers. Registers link to data in other registers to avoid the need for any duplication.” Registers record the way...
Local authority England alpha register
...so that any updates to the registers are incorporated automatically. Since the local authority England register is being hosted on the registers platform we know it meets the requirement to...
Discovering how data is published
Posted by:
Louise Petre and Maria Izquierdo, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Infrastructure, Data.gov.uk, Government Data Programme
...need to understand why this is. It's a big challenge and we can’t do it by ourselves, so we’re working with the registers team and our colleagues in data science...
API First at data.gov.uk
Posted by:
Ross Jones, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Infrastructure, Government Data Programme, Open Data
There is a lot of talk about APIs in government right now, and how they affect the work we are doing at GDS. We thought it was worth sharing how we approach APIs when it comes to data.gov.uk. Data.gov.uk is …
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