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Cooking up a new approach to supporting purposeful use of data

In my last post I explored how we might better support the use of datasets. To do that I applied the BASEDEF framework to outline the ways in which communities might collaborate to help unlock more...

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Bath Historical Images

One of my little side projects is to explore historical images and maps of Bath and the surrounding areas. I like understanding the contrast between how Bath used to look and how it is today. It’s...

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OSM Queries

For the past month I’ve been working on a small side project which I’m pleased to launch for Open Data Day 2021. I’ve long been a fan of OpenStreetMap. I’ve contributed to the map, coordinated a local...

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12 ways to improve the GDS guidance on reference data publishing

GDS have published some guidance about publishing reference data for reuse across government. I’ve had a read and it contains a good set of recommendations. But some of them could be clearer. And I...

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Some lessons learned from building standards around Schema.org

OpenActive is a community-led initiative in the sport and physical activity sector in England. It’s goal is to help to get people healthier and more active by making its easier for people to find...

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Building data validators

This is a post about building tools to validate data. I wanted to share a few reflections based on helping to design and build a few different public and private tools, as well as my experience as a...

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Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards

Despite being very different projects Wikidata and OpenStreetmap have a number of similarities. Recurring patterns in how they organise and support the work of their communities. We documented a...

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The Public Charge Point regulations and other examples of open data and...

This week the UK published some new draft legislation: The Public Charge Point Regulations 2023. You can read a summary of what the legislation covers elsewhere, but what caught my attention was that...

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Increasing consistency of data with FAIR Implementation Profiles

FAIR implementation profiles offer a means to increase consistency around how data is shared.

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What datasets have been classified as Digital Public Goods?

A couple of years ago I wrote a short series of posts looking at some different approaches for assessing data infrastructure. It includes this post on the Digital Public Goods standard and registry....

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