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Opening up public data
The Government has committed to open up public data, make it available on the web and make it more easily accessible for reuse.
In the recent Putting the Frontline First: smarter government report HM Government set the aim for “the majority of government-published information to be reusable, linked data by June 2011”.
TSO has been working with public sector clients to open up published data in three steps:
- Create: providing processes and tools to enable data to be created in a structured or semi-structured way
- Enrich: enhancing data using text engineering techniques and converting structured data to formats to publish on the web
- Engage: providing web environments that allow both humans and machines to access and use the data
Why TSO?
- We have been providing publishing and information management solutions to government for more than 200 years
- Publishing data in machine readable form is a natural extension of our multi-format publishing solutions
- We have been working with OPSI to open up data in the Gazettes and Legislation
- We host data.gov.uk and are providing services to TNA, COI and the Cabinet Office to move the initiative forward
- We have linked data experts in-house and access to a growing number of partners with linked data skills.