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New Government data explorers on the front page
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 15/06/2011 in Data, Site | 1 commentWe have updated the front page of the site to give access to some tools that let you explore some key datasets we have released. This followed on from feedback about how we can make public data more useful, and having a front page that shows the...
Sites of interest - 11/04/11
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 11/04/2011 in Site | 2 commentsWelcome to our regular round-up highlighting blogs, news and ideas that we think might be of interest to the data.gov.uk community: Professor Nigel Shadbolt, a member of the Government's Transparency Board and a founder of data.gov.uk, writes on the...
Call for developers to request datasets
Posted by Anonymous on 08/04/2011 in Data, Leadership, Site | 0 commentsAhead of this weekend's LinkedGov Data HackCamp, Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office called for the developer community to request the release of more datasets and give feedback on progress made so far. As you know, we’ve already...
Data.gov.uk – recent site developments
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 25/03/2011 in Site | 2 commentsAs you may have noticed, we at data.gov.uk have been gradually rolling out a number of new features. Many of these come from suggestions from the community, such as in response to our request for your ideas for improving data.gov.uk in the forum....
Sites of interest - 16/03/11
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 16/03/2011 in Site | 1 commentWelcome to our regular round-up highlighting blogs, news and ideas that we think might be of interest to the Data.gov.uk community: - Pezholio has recently posted a beginners guide to using linked data with SPARQL - The Open Knowledge Foundation’...