Comfortable with risk
...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...
Food, Glorious Food; Data, Marvellous Data!
Last night the Secretary of State for Environment, Elizabeth Truss, launched Great British Food: a five year campaign celebrating British food in this country and around the world, tearing down outdated stereotypes about a bland British diet and showing off the …
Environment Agency metadata on data.gov.uk – making it count
Hi, I’m Claire Hainsworth. I work in the Data, Mapping, Modelling and Information team at the Environment Agency. Over the last few weeks, I’ve carried out a wholesale update of our metadata records on data.gov.uk. Why did we do …
User needs: how they lead to better guidance
Would you read government guidance if you didn't have to? "Of course not," says the average citizen. That's why every new page that the Smarter Guidance team creates has to have a user need. If there's no need for someone …
V for Victor
In the latest step along Defra’s road to becoming Digital by Default, we’re pleased to announce that the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has launched Private Beta for VICTOR, a brand new digital service for Vets. VICTOR stands for …
Environment Agency National Data List
Today the Environment Agency has published its National Dataset List (NDL).
Supporting the Geovation Water Challenge
Miranda Kavanagh, Executive Director of Evidence at the Environment Agency talks about how we are supporting the Geovation Water Challenge... As a member of the Defra Data Governance Board I'm pleased to confirm that the Environment Agency and Defra will be …
New farming landing page on GOV.UK
This month we launched a new farming topic page on GOV.UK. It brings together all farming content, hopefully in a way that makes it much easier for people to find what they’re looking for. It also allows government to point farmers to …
Paul Leinster - Leading a Data Revolution in the Environment Agency
Today we have a short post from the retiring Environment Agency Chief Executive Dr Paul Leinster: I am coming to the end of my time as Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, an NDPB within the Department for the Environment …
Why we use plain English
We use plain English so you can understand anything we publish quickly and easily. Still with me? Thought so. I could’ve said: Simplifying language facilitates the comprehension process of our written guidance. You’d just about get it, but you’d probably …
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