Environment Agency’s Data Advisory Group

[Rob Langford]

Hi all,

I've been invited to join the Environment Agency’s Data Advisory Group and attended their inaugural meeting this week.  There’s a blog post about the group below, but broadly speaking they are keen to open up as much of their data as they can and are looking for advice from the 

wider community.

 

https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2014/11/17/helping-us-make-the-most-of-our-information/

A couple of their desired outcomes that I've been specifically asked to look at are:

• Prioritisation of datasets to release as open data
  
• The “communities’” preference around data formats
  

Although I’ve been selected to mainly represent the Local Government sector, I be really interested in representing the thoughts of the local Open Data community around these (and probably future) objectives.

 

I am waiting on their currently list of their “top 50” datasets to release (as prioritised internally at the EA) as well as a list of all of their datasets (around 1,700 I think), both of which I'll share on here when they arrive.

I'd appreciate any thoughts or ideas anyone may have.

Many thanks,

Rob

[Rob Langford]

As promised here are the documents from the Environment Agency (EA).

• EA's prioritised top 50 datasets to "Open"
• All 1,747 EA datasets has recorded in their audit

Any comments/feedback appreciated.

Thanks