Beginning to accelerate….
...our work. We spent some time yesterday looking at how we can engage with users across multiple themes to begin a conversation about what they want from us. Tom Smith,...
Open data
What we learnt at the First #OpenDefra Data Governance workshop
Hi, I’m Lisa Allen; I am the lead for the data governance workstream of the #OpenDefra Data Programme. On 25 June the Secretary of State set out her vision for open data to transform food and farming. She gave a …
Making a Difference With Data
On Friday (10/07/15) I had the pleasure of attending 'Make it Better With Data: Sheffield' at Sheffield Town Hall hosted by the cities Better With Data Society and Sheffield City Council, with support from Capita and Socrata. The conference was one of the …
Updating our Bathing Water Data services for the new season
Hello - I’m Tom Guilbert and I work in the Data, Mapping, Modelling and Information team at the Environment Agency. I’ve been working over the last few months on updating and improving our bathing water quality open data services …
A view on how Environment Agency's Data Advisory Group is helping to shape the future of open data
Today we have a guest post from Savania Chinamaringa, who is a Defra rep at the Environment Agency Data Advisory Group (EADAG)... I have been involved with the EADAG as a Defra rep from its inception. I attend EADAG meetings to listen and learn but …
#OpenDefra
We’re posting here on the Defra digital blog some of the stories about our data, data activities and data releases. On 25 June, our Secretary of State Elizabeth Truss set out her vision for the role of open data in the future of food and farming.
Exploring 'Rivers of Data'
This week saw the beta release of the Environment Agency's flood data APIs and 4 new open data products from Ordnance Survey including the detailed OS Open Map - Local and the new OS Open Rivers network data. Alex Coley's …
Near Real Time 'Flood Data' API
Open 'Flood' Data Last year the Environment Agency increased its publication of Open Data. In the first instance, and in response to the extreme flooding episodes of the 2013/14 winter, this included access to flood warnings, flood alerts and river …
Rivers of data
...Rivers Also on Tuesday the Environment Agency will pull the cover’s off the beta of their new real time flood warnings, alerts and river levels api at environment.data.gov.uk This is...
Open Data & Transparency... How do you make it happen?
Releasing public sector data as Open Data is a top government priority, as is being transparent about the work we do and the data we collect. But how do we make these things happen? What do we need to consider? …
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