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Thursday, 21 January 2010

Not as impressive as it sounds

The BBC are really excited by the news that "Web founder Tim Berners-Lee unveils a UK government website that aims to make public sector data freely available. "

I have visited the site a few times and the most common message that I see is "Your search returned no records". I get this if I look for individual data and even if I just click on List all data sets"... Impressive? Not really, no.

1 comment:

Mrs Rigby said...

http://data.gov.uk/forum/general-discussion/mapspoliceuk-isnt-data
"Unfortunately the data is a little hidden away."
- quoting Richard Sterling who leads the project.

Using the tags http://data.gov.uk/data/tag seems to work.