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Blog 22/11/2016
Legislation.gov.uk: improving the UK digital statute book through collaborative maintenance
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Search and discovery
This case study shows how legislation.gov.uk went about solving the problem of providing up-to-date legislation
Blog 18/08/2016
How do we 'own' data?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Ellen Broad
We live in an age of data abundance. We produce data every day – as people, businesses, charities and governments – that might be used to generate valuable insights and services. Ellen Broad explores data ownership in this age of abundance
Blog 10/08/2016
We need to learn how to search the web of data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Search and discovery
- Peter Wells
Search for the web of data is still in the portal era, but portals do not meet all user needs. Imagine a world where you could search for, find, understand, trust and use data as easily as you can for news
Blog, Guides 27/09/2015
Open Data Maturity Model
- Data publishing and use
The Open Data Maturity Model is a way to assess how well an organisation publishes and consumes open data, and identifies actions for improvement.
Blog, Guides 06/08/2015
Five stages of data grief
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
The ODI has developed a new approach for organisations to identify and manage data ethics considerations: the Data Ethics Canvas
Blog, Guides 27/02/2015
How To Use R To Access Data On The Web
- Data publishing and use
- Search and discovery
Analysing or using data without software is incredibly cumbersome if not impossible. Here we show you how you can import data from the web into a tool called R. Reasons why R has become so popular, and continues to grow, are that it’s free, open source, with state-of-the-art practices and a fantastic community.
Blog, Guides 18/12/2014
What is a CSV? A case study of CSVs on data.gov.uk
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
CSV stands for comma-separated values. It is a simple format for tabular data and relatively easy to process. We analysed more than 20,000 links to CSV files on data.gov.uk – only around one third turned out to be machine-readable.
Blog 11/01/2014
2014: The year of CSV
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
Jeni Tennison’s goal in 2014 was to make it easier for developers to use tabular data

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