Well, we made it this far! it has been a rollercoaster ride but we finally have the new site up and running. When I first took on the role of Head of Data.gov.uk I knew that we had a challenging task ahead; making the best government data portal around into something even better. I think the amazing team at Data.gov.uk has achieved just that.
Whether you are dealing with bank transaction data, climate science data or data on hospital performance, the IT infrastructure for managing massive amounts of data is not that different. Tracking and storing data present the same technical challenges for data.gov.uk …
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 …
Perhaps once the concern only of a small number of technology minded ‘activists’, Open Data is now fast becoming an everyday concern for entrepreneurs, civil society organisations, industry and the wider public. Whether you’re finding your next bus on your …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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