This blog is now archived
This blog is now archived
This blog is no longer being updated. If you're interested in how we're using performance analysis and data science in government, read about it on the cross-government data blog.
Government departments publish real time energy use for headquarters buildings
Following the PM’s announcement on 14 May 2010, 18 department HQ buildings now have real time energy displays, most of which have the capability to report data in intervals of less than one hour, and a delay of no more …
Open Tech: speaker announcement - data.gov.uk will be there
Data.gov.uk is proud to be partnering with Open Tech for this year's conference, The first 150 students who pre-register with an .ac.uk, or civil servants with gov.uk email addresses and present valid ID at the desk will get free entry …
Podcast: Richard Stirling talks about progress on data.gov.uk
Paul Miller talks with Richard Stirling, the head of Making Public Data Public and lead on data.gov.uk to discuss the progress of the site and the project.
legislation.gov.uk API
This week The National Archives launched www.legislation.gov.uk, which brings together legislation from across the UK in one place. The site contains legislation as it is originally enacted or made with the revised versions of Acts of Parliament, showing changes to …
COINS seminar, held at the Treasury Office
On 2 July, the Treasury held a short seminar for organisations and individuals developing the released COINS data to enhance its usability to the public. The seminar provided further information on the coding structure employed, as well as information on …
Public call for datasets
The last few weeks have seen us deliver on our promise to radically shake-up what transparency means in government. We have already taken those important first steps and released information about people, jobs and salaries that had been previously unavailable …
Avoiding a standards roadblock in releasing public data
We've had some great feedback on our draft guidance on publishing local government spend data both on the blog post and in conversation with practitioners. We hope to improve the guidance soon. The role of data standards has come up …
Work on Local Spending Data
Work to open up expenditure data from central and local government is gathering pace, and the first movers are working hard to resolve the technical, licensing and other issues involved. Chris Taggart's blog post this morning highlights several issues which …
Guest Post: A Developer's Guide to the Linked Data APIs - Jeni Tennison
*Please note that the end points mentioned in this blog post were an experimental development that finished a few years ago, and are therefore all inactive* Linked data offers some great advantages for publishing government data. The approach makes it …
Guest Post: How I built ASBOrometer - Jeff Gilfelt
In February 2010 I created a mobile application called ASBOrometer, which I described as a tool that measures levels of anti-social behaviour at your current location. The basis of the app was two datasets made available for reuse on data.gov.uk. …
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