Natural England has released its 1000 open datasets three months earlier than the June target set by Elizabeth Truss MP. This important milestone forms part of the total of 8000 promised by the Defra group to the Secretary of State …
You may know that Defra and Environment Agency have been involved with this year’s Geovation Challenge which the Secretary of State, Liz Truss MP, announced in her speech at the open environment launch. Geovation is all about promoting innovation in …
In September 2015 we made our extensive archive of LIDAR digital elevation models (DTM – digital terrain models; and DSM – digital surface models) covering over three quarters of England, available as open data. Since then, businesses, local communities and …
You may well know that the Defra family, including its arms’-length bodies, holds a vast treasure trove of data. The goal of the Department is to make all non-personal data it holds available as open data – data anyone can access, …
Advice for SMEs and policy leads on writing strong user needs and what help you can get from the Defra content team user needs panel.
Our team is making progress towards publishing Family Food Data for 1974-2000. We have put together all the data and supporting reference tables into tab separated format. The next challenge we face is to make sure the data is safe …
Today the first batch of marine survey data collected by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee was released under an Open Government Licence. These data will support furthering our understanding of the species which occur around in the seas around the …
Today, as part of the #OpenDefra campaign, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) published its data inventory. This details the data sources that JNCC intend to publish under the Open Government Licence. JNCC was formed in 1990 when nature conservation was …
Elizabeth Truss has encouraged farmers and the food industry to seize the opportunities offered by open data as the global population grows towards 9 billion.The Secretary of State was speaking at an Open Data Institute conference: ODI Futures Agriculture, December 2, where she reiterated …
...set as open data. The open data risk assessment is a series of checks used to ensure datasets are safe to release as open data. For example, where we need...
