Corporate report

Public Data Group: Open Data statement 2014

Provides information on the work of PDG to support the Open Data agenda, and commitments for 2014 to 2015 and beyond.

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 15 July 2014

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Public Data Group (PDG) Open Data Statement 2014

Ref: BIS/14/969

PDF, 1.99 MB, 17 pages

Details

The Public Data Group (PDG) brings together 4 public sector bodies - Companies House, Land Registry, Met Office and Ordnance Survey - that collect, refine, manage and distribute data on the nation’s companies, property, weather and geography.

This document provides a description of the kind of data these organisations already make available, and sets out PDG’s commitments to future Open Data releases and activity. It contains:

• background information on the members of the group
• an explanation of why some data is free and some data is charged for
• information on the open data PDG makes available and the formats it is provided in
• information on the activities PDG carry out to support use of their data

Further information on the Public Data Group

Published 15 July 2014