By Tim Davies on May 4, 2010
[Update 5th May: I thought five was too few. See #6 from Southampton] Data.gov.uk now contains a list of over 3200 different datasets. One of those, is the data.gov.uk directory of datasets itself, allowing anyone to take and display information about UK open government data. Over the last few days I’ve come across a number […]
Posted in MSc, Other Governments, UK National Goverment | Tagged data.gov.uk, datastores, directories
By Tim Davies on March 20, 2010
I went along to Rewired State DotGovLabs this weekend with the intention of being a participant-observer to help with the exploratory phase of my MSc dissertation research. It’s the first full-blown hack-day event I’ve been too, so I’d given a lot of thought in advance to how to be a participant-observer in a way that fits […]
Posted in UK National Goverment | Tagged rewiredstate
By Tim Davies on February 21, 2010
If there is one thing I’ve learnt through the statistical methods course being offered as part of the OII MSc, it’s that establishing any sorts of facts with data is far from a straightforward process. Not so much when it comes to facts such as ‘the dataset says there is a school here’ (although being […]
Posted in MSc, Open Data, UK National Goverment | Tagged data, data.gov.uk, Open Data, schools
By Tim Davies on January 21, 2010
The UK governments portal onto data resources, and a good amount of open data with it, has been publicly launched this morning. At http://www.data.gov.uk it includes not only a CKAN based search of datasets, but also a range of spaces for people to discuss datasets and ideas for applications built atop the data. All of […]
Posted in MSc, UK National Goverment
By Tim Davies on November 28, 2009
At Oxford Geek Night 15, Jeni Tennison presented to the assembled crowd an overview of the UK Government Open Data project currently in a developers beta. If you want to get a good overview of what ‘data.gov.uk’ is all about – then it’s a great 15 minute introduction: Watch it here (MP4)
Posted in Linked Data, Open Data, UK National Goverment
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