In the second post of a two-part blog, content designers Natalie Smithson and Sandeep Dhaliwal report on the outputs of the recent hack day, led by Defra’s planet-centred design (PCD) team.
The following case study from Mike Williams, Data Research Consultant at Landmark Information group, shows how Defra's open data is being provided as a service alongside environmental expertise, to advise developers on the suitability of land for development. With the Government Digital Service …
The JNCC Technical Skills Framework – a strategic approach to training The majority of staff at the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) are scientists. We also have a dedicated technical development team but how do we know that we have …
Recently I attended the first meeting of the Defra Data Programme Board. This is the group of senior officials advising the SRO of the Defra Data Programme, Emily Miles, and reports into ExCo, the executive team of Defra chaired by …
Last week (21 April) the World Wide Web Foundation published the results of its Open Data Barometer, which showed that the UK remains at number one in the world. The barometer compares a number of measures to judge how well …
This week we’ve released our water quality archive as open data (you can find it all here on data.gov.uk). The archive provides data on the quality of rivers, lakes and estuaries. There are a staggering 58 million measurements and 4 …
About the authors: Lisa leads a team in implementing data governance and data quality, with a responsibility for developing, implementing and measuring the Environment Agency’s data maturity model. Deborah co-ordinates and leads work across the Environment Agency to embed an …
April is a busy month in our open data journey, as we make a number of significant flood-related datasets open including: Flood Map for Planning Areas that benefit from flood defences Flood storage areas Flood zones Spatial flood defences (without standardised …
Back in November, Alex Coley blogged about being comfortable with risk – explaining the risks we consider when making our data open and the simple tool we use to help assess them. The Open Data Risk Assessment Tool was developed by the Environment …
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 …
How the Environment Agency’s digital flood service helped the public deal with this December's floods - and how it'll be improved in 2016.
