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Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with founding the web, has taken the wraps off his latest project.
It’s for the UK government, and it lives at http://data.gov.uk, under the tagline: “Unlocking Innovation: Working with UK public sector information and data.”
The site aims to make the vast compilation of statistics and figures the government has at its fingertips open to the public, who can browse through this data at will.
A huge range of topics are covered, from car crime statistics to information on and ratings of UK schools.
And there are some weird and wonderful nuggets here, such as the “English Channel Beam Trawl Survey”.
Applications have also been created to make use of the data, such as a house price app which compiles price data from the Land Registry going back to 1995.
“It’s such an untapped resource,” Berners-Lee said, speaking to the BBC. “Government data is something we have already spent the money on… and when it is sitting there on a disk in somebody’s office it is wasted.”
Currently the site seems to be falling over a bit, although we expect with the news buzz around it this morning, that’s a symptom of the many surfers flocking to check it out.
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