There are many ways to make data useful but the most fundamental is to make it accessible: available for anyone to access and use without restrictions in format or licensing. This is the basic ethos of the Open Data movement …
When the first data.gov.uk platform was launched, it was a great example of the 'rewired state' spirit: pioneering the rapid development of a new digital part of government using open source code, and developed through fluid collaboration between government staff, academics, open …
Level: introductory In the early 1990s there began to emerge a new way of using the internet to link documents together. It was called the World Wide Web. What the Web did that was fundamentally new was that it enabled …
1.1 In this memorandum, we put forward three recommendations for consideration by the Committee:
Last year, before Christmas, we made available through Data.gov.uk observational and forecasting data from the Met Office. The interface and mechanism to access and download the data is in beta for the moment, as we are still learning how to …
Background The Local Public Data Panel has operated since January 2010. It is an independent Panel that advises Government on issues relating to the release and use of local public data. The Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government …
Consultation on data policy for a Public Data Corporation Response from the Local Public Data Panel[1] The Local Public Data Panel welcomes this opportunity to contribute to the development of policy for the proposed Public Data Corporation (PDC). Opening up …
In October 2010, the Government announced plans to abolish, merge or substantially reform hundreds of public bodies. These organisations hold huge amounts of unpublished data, in some cases going back many years. Taken together, this amounts to an enormous wealth …
The government is currently releasing lots of data through data.gov.uk. With new data available every day, it can be really interesting to hunt down data sets and plot them on a graph to get a feel for the numbers. This …
Professor Nigel Shadbolt gave a talk about the power of government data and the work that he and others have been doing to open it up at The Guardian's Activate 2010 conference in July. We have included a video of …
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