UK Government Opens Transparency Web Site
January 21, 2010
Keywords: Transparency Governance, UK Government, RDF, SPARQL
In a major step towards transparent governance, the UK government yesterday officially opened data.gov.uk. The site will publish government-held, non-personal data in RDF, and there are already 3000 datasets available. Apart from raw data, the provides a SPARQL end-point and is inviting public participation for applications, ideas and virtualizations. With busting of this big silo of data, we should see many PULL-based applications. In fact, there are some interesting ones already at data.gov.uk.
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