For anyone who hasn't already seen it, there's some great news on open gov data in the UK today with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown promising to extend the existing commitments to “make public data public” and concretely to:
* open up of a large and important set of transport data (the NaPTAN dataset) -- this was one of the government datasets listed as ‘important but unavailable’ at our Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information back in November 2008! * open up a significant amount of Ordnance Survey data from the 1st April (though details of which datasets not yet specified) * put online online an e-”domesday” book by the Autumn giving “an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies See blog post for more: <http://blog.okfn.org/2010/03/22/great-news-for-open-government-data-in-the-uk/> Rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
