Taking stock of INSPIRE's achievements – reflecting on a report by the Open Data Institute
Data Policy Lead, John Dixon, shares his thinking on the independent review of INSPIRE by the Open Data Institute.
Online recruitment, working remotely and yet to meet our team-mates
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Josh George and Junayed Islam, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra services
Two of our data analysts, Josh George and Junayed Islam, who joined Defra at the height of the pandemic, reflect on their experiences of online recruitment, working remotely, and having still never met their colleagues in person.
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 …
I’m Emily Miles
I’m Emily Miles and along with joining Defra in November as the Group Director of Strategy, I’ve just become the Senior Responsible Officer for the Defra Data Programme. I'm not especially a technical person. I did arts A levels and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
INSPIRE’d?
Defra is the UK lead department for the INSPIRE Directive, the UK is leading the way in INSPIRE implementation. In this post we provide an introduction to INSPIRE for those who are new to it and an update on progress …
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