How to improve user needs
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.
Flood defences dataset made open data
Flood defences have been in the news this winter. We’re pleased to announce that in response to this we have brought forward our #OpenDefra plans to release a key flood defence dataset as open data from 1 April to today. …
Natural England opens-up seabed datasets
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Hannah Ross, Open Data Project Manager, Natural England, Posted on:
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Open data
Following the Secretary of State’s announcement in June 2015 that Defra would become an open, data driven organisation we have been working hard at Natural England to start unlocking our rich collection of data. We have opened up 71 data …
Data data every-w-air
We have been monitoring air quality for decades and have millions of records for a whole host of pollutants measured across the UK. The data has been available from UK-AIR for many years and the appetite for accessing the data just …
Making our Family Food Survey data safe to use
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 …
First batch of marine survey data from JNCC
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Steve Wilkinson, Head of Innovation, Defra Data Transformation Programme, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Open data
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 …
Opening up the JNCC data archives
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Steve Wilkinson, Head of Innovation, Defra Data Transformation Programme, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Open data
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 …
Revolutionising our food and farming industry
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 …
Launching a Challenge for the Water Environment
Last Wednesday night (25/11/15) the #OpenDefra team were privileged to attend the launch of the Geovation Water Challenge at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Water's Innovation Reception in the Houses of Parliament. The event included the Geovation Challenge launch, stands to …
Making guidance the right length
When producing Defra’s Smarter Guidance for GOV.UK, some people ask: ‘how long should we make this guide?’ The shortest guide I’ve seen was a single url. The longest was 40,000 words. These examples don’t show the acceptable range of a …
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