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Issue 5 of DataSource now available
UK Location: Getting Started Guidance now available for Data Providers and Publishers
Issue 5 of DataSource now available
The 2010 summer issue of DataSource (the newsletter published by the Places Community team at Communities and Local Government) is now available.
This issue includes a range of top stories and regular features:
- The Data Transparency Agenda: read how CLG contributes
- Launch of two new Places Community members: Housing and Planning view and Local Spending Reports, and why you should use them
- Pan Government Agreement: focus on Ordnance Survey and a case study on the Environment Agency
- Supporting the Places Community: article on what goes on behind the scenes to the data before you use it
- ONS launches Local Profiles, NeSS Data Exchange V2 and publishes Regional Trends 42nd edition
Plus, updates on all Places Community members; Places database, Places Analysis Tool, Hub, Floor Targets Interactive and Neighbourhood Statistics
... With useful web links to lots more.
If you have a moment or two, after reading DataSource, you may want to look at the recently improved Places website where you will find new data added and clever new mapping facilities, as well as previous issues of DataSource. FACT: Did you know that searching for key local authority data takes approximately ten seconds via Places compared to over 30 minutes looking for the same data directly on the local authority web site? Try it for yourself here.
Published: 26-07-2010
UK Location: Getting Started Guidance now available for Data Providers and Publishers
The UK Location programme has published a set of Getting Started guides that are aimed at Data Providers and Publishers. These provide initial guidance on what needs to be done publish location information into the UK Location Information Infrastructure.
The first set of guides covers the publishing of an organisation's existing datasets – as they are now, for Discovery and View Services. Later guides will cover Download Services and data compliance.
To view the resources available and to download copies of the Guides, please visit the Getting Started pages on the Location Programme's web site.
Published: 13-07-2010
AGI GeoCommunity'10 - early bird deadline approaches
The conference programme for this year's AGI GeoCommunity has been published here, and there are nearly 50 papers spread across the following streams:
- Geospatial Foresight
- The Power of Free
- GeoWeb & the Cloud
- Governance & Management
- Environmental Concerns
- Delivering on Policy
The Soapbox slot returns after its successful launch in 2009, and there will also Keynote presentations from sponsoring organisations, plus three Plenary sessions.
Registration for this year's event is open and you can sign-up online here. Early Bird registration continues until 31 July, after which date the standard prices apply.
Published: 28-06-2010
Magnificent Maps exhibition at British Library
When: 30 Apr - 19 Sep 2010
Where: PACCAR Gallery, British Library, London NW1
Price: Free
Magnificent Maps showcases the British Library's collection of large-scale display maps, many of which have never been exhibited before, and demonstrates why maps are about far more than geography.
The exhibition will include large-scale, maps from the 1400s to the present day, including the largest atlas in the world, the Klencke Atlas of 1660. It will suggest the settings in which they might originally have been seen – from the palace to the schoolroom and the home – reveal the themes that unite them, and highlight the sheer artistry that was involved in their production.
The exhibition is free, and more information can be found on the British Library web site.
Published: 30-04-2010
