Alexander Coley
Data Standards & Policy Manager (Defra)
@alexrcoley
some differing uses of data on gov.uk
* image stolen from Paul Downey @psd
INSPIRE (legislation)
(this is not a plug for but a recognition that
there are some things we have to do)
not always (directly) represented
by coordinates
e.g. addresses or regions
reference data
underpinning, commonly used data or elements
URIs
and common design patterns
(http URIs)
see: https://github.com/UKGovLD
Registries
treating codelists etc as data
see: https://github.com/UKGovLD and
http://environment.data.gov.uk
Vocabularies
e.g.
Data Cube
Organization
SKOS
Alexander Coley
@alexrcoley
