UK To Release Major Data Sets in 2012
Meteo, land registry, NHS, traffic and other data sets.
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, as part of the Government’s Autumn Statement, announced new commitments to open up public sector data, "making useful and valuable transport, health, weather and house price data available".
The BBC provides a timeline for the release of data sets:
- The first data to be released will come from the Met Office. It will open up public weather service forecasts and real-time observation datasets under the Open Government Licence.
- From March 2012, the Land Registry will make address-level house price information available.
- The Department for Transport will make real-time train and bus timetables available from April 2012. It will also release data about roadworks to allow developers to create traffic-related apps aimed at easing congestion.
- Data from the NHS will be released from September 2012 to help the healthcare research industry develop new products and services.
Open Data Institute
The UK government will also launch an Open Data Institute - with funding of up to £10 million over five years, with match-funding from industry and academia, to "establish the world’s first Open Data Institute to help business exploit the opportunities created by release of public data".More details on the specific data sets and time line can be found in a document listing all the open data measures. The document is also embedded below.
UK: Further Detail on Open Data Measures in the Autumn Statement 2011
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