Alexander Coley

Data Standards & Policy Manager (Defra)

@alexrcoley


some differing uses of data on gov.uk

* image stolen from Paul Downey @psd

Standards and standards

spatial data


INSPIRE (legislation)


(this is not a plug for but a recognition that 
there are some things we have to do)

coverages & grids

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

and api(s)

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

designing datasets

By Alex Coley

designing datasets

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