How would you use public data?

This is a new form of "community provisioned" Information Service where we hope to stimulate interaction between the following communities:

Data Publisher

Public Sector Information Publisher

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Researchers

The Research Community

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Mashup Creators

The new information intermediaries, "mashup creators"

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Currently available datasets

We have imported a number of publicly available datasets into a SPARQL endpoint which you can query here. Here are the currently available datasets:

London Gazette

Official Newspaper of Record of regulatory and legal information for England. (licence)

SIC Code

The United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities (SIC), version 2003. (licence)

School Performance across England (2004-2009)

School Performance across England (2004-2009) (licence)

Administrative Geography of Great Britain

The Ordnance Survey Administrative Divisions for Great Britain (licence)

Belfast Gazette

Official Newspaper of Record of regulatory and legal information for Wales. (licence)

Indices of Deprivation dataset

Indices of Deprivation Data (2004/2007) published by http://www.communities.gov.uk (licence)

Edinburgh Gazette

Official Newspaper of Record of regulatory and legal information for Scotland. (licence)

MPs expenses from the CSV file published by The Guardian

This data set is a translation from the MPs expenses published by The Guardian as a CSV file in Google Docs. This translation was made during the IAM WebFest at ecs.soton.ac.uk (licence)

Department for children, schools and families dataset

Department for children, schools and families dataset (licence)

List of community Interest Companies

Community Interest Companies (CICS) are limited companies created for the use of people who want to conduct a business for community benefit, and not purely for private advantage. (licence)

Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV)

The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary is an encoding scheme for the Subject element of the current version of the e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS). (licence)