Who is doing what?

This page lists the domains which publish and maintain linked data and short term projects developing the government use of linked data.

Most sectors have one or more SPARQL endpoints, which enable you to perform searches across the data; you can access these interactively on this site.

Environment

For examples of environment Linked Data including the Environment Agency's Linked Data pilots See http://environment.data.gov.uk/lab/

Bathing water quality information

Maintained

• Bathing Water Quality API Reference Documentation
• Environment.data.gov.uk SPARQL form provided by Epimorphics

• Bathing water quality explorer application

Finance

The Combined Online Information System (COINS) is a database of UK Government expenditure provided by government departments. It is available as linked data in a beta version. We are working on providing an API onto this data, but for now only the SPARQL endpoint is available. Search

Development

• SPARQL Endpoint provided by TSO
• Guide to the Payments Ontology

Datasets

• COINS

Legislation

Legislation data is provided by legislation.gov.uk.

Maintained

• UK Legislation
• Scottish Legislation
• Welsh Legislation
• Northern Ireland Legislation

Search

• Advanced Search
• SPARQL Endpoint provided by TSO

Guides

• Legislation.gov.uk API
• Background on legislation.gov.uk
• Developer Documentation

Location

Ordnance Survey have released a number of their products as linked data, including postcode units and administrative areas.

Maintained

• Ordnance Survey Linked Data

Datasets

• 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer
• Code Point® Open

Search

• SPARQL Endpoint provided by Talis
• Search provided by Talis
• SPARQL Endpoint provided by TSO

Reference

Reference data covers the central working of government, including organisational structures where these have been made available as RDF.

Maintained

The most comprehensive organisational charts of the UK Civil Service ever released online and powered by Linked Data.

• UK Government Organogram Application

Search

• SPARQL Endpoint provided by TSO

Companies House has developed a new service to supply basic company details, using a simple Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for each company in their database.

• Companies House launch of URI
• Guide to Companies House URI

Development

We have removed the links to the reference interval service. We are working to provide these links, but will only do so when we are sure the service is stable.

Statistics

The Office for National Statistics have recently released a number of their products as linked data, including the Register of Geographic Codes and the Code History Database.

Maintained

• Register of Geographic Codes (link: http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/statistical-entity)

Search

• SPARQL Endpoint provided by Talis (link: http://api.talis.com/stores/ons-location/services/sparql)
• Search provided by Talis (link: http://api.talis.com/stores/ons-location/items)

Transport

Transport data covers the transport infrastructure and data about traffic flow. Note: the data provided here dates from March 2010.

Development

• National Public Transport Gazetteer
• National Public Transport Access Nodes

Search

• SPARQL Endpoint provided by TSO

Guides

• Guide to SPARQLing Transport Data

Ongoing development

With thanks to Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch, for the use of the Linking Open Data cloud diagram http://lod-cloud.net/

Though we are working to repackage and provide more detail in this section, we rely on everyone's input to maintain the underlying content. For this current iteration we have removed all dead links, but be rest assured that the underlying URI are being maintained.

If you would like to highlight a project or alert the community to a resource which is not being maintained please provide a comment or let us know via @UKGovLD.