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