What a content designer does in alpha
What a content designer does in alpha
Kaitlin D'Avella explains what content designers do in the alpha stage of a project.
Digital flood service improvements
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.
Judging the Geovation Challenge
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Nick Haigh, Lead Analyst, Floods and Water, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Open data
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 …
Exploring the laser 'cloud'
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Susan Winter, Environment Agency Geomatics Team, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Open data
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 …
Content design at Defra
How Defra designs content in plain English that's easy to use and legally correct.
Leading Defra’s Data Revolution
This week we will be advertising the exciting, challenging and rewarding role of Deputy Director for Data in Defra on the Civil Service Jobs portal. This role is key for leading Defra’s unique and exciting data transformation programme, building on …
Improving CAP inspections through data innovation – Event
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Stefan Janusz, Communications, Defra Data Programme, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra digital, Earth Observation, Open data
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, …
Defra’s approach to digital content
How Defra designs content so it's legally accurate, easy to find and easy to read.
Feeding the hunger for data
This week we have published a collection of datasets from the National Food Survey from 1974-2000, as open data. This rich data collection is comprised of food diary records from approximately 150,000 households across the 70s, 80s and 90s, who were …
Environment Agency data licensing – simpler, easier, faster
We like people using our data. The more it’s used, the more people will make well-informed decisions about the environment. Our new licences will help you to do that. It’s a reduction in red-tape, and it helps our staff focus …
JNCC meets its open data pledge with release of marine survey data
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Lynn Heeley, Biodiversity Data Specialist, Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Pete Montgomery, Posted on:
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Open data
Today, as part of the #OpenDefra campaign; the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) published the second batch of marine data under an Open Government Licence on data.gov.uk. The number of datasets now released by JNCC has topped 1000, meeting our …
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