Abstract
With the launch of a national data portal, the development of a national open data licence and the publication of various policy reports and action plans on open data, all in 2010, the United Kingdom took several major steps in implementing its open data agenda. In the following years, the UK further developed the various components of its open data initiative, providing access to a wide range of government data and promoting its re-use for a range of different purposes. The United Kingdom is now considered as one of the pioneers and leaders in open data worldwide. This chapter discusses the development and implementation of the open data agenda in the United Kingdom.
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World Wide Web Foundation 2018.
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Open Knowledge International 2018.
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European Data Portal 2018.
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Heimstädt et al. 2014.
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Worthy 2015.
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Huijboom and Van den Broek 2011.
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Davies 2014.
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De Blasi and Selva 2016.
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Heimstädt et al. 2014.
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An in-depth discussion of the EU legal framework on public sector information and open data is provided in Chap. 2.
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https://www.openstreetmap.org. Accessed May 2018.
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Mayo and Steinberg 2007.
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Power of Information Task Force 2009.
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Great Britain HM Treasury 2009.
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Conservatives 2010.
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Prime Minister’s Office 2010.
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Prime Minister’s Office 2011.
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Cabinet Office 2011.
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Cabinet Office 2012.
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Cabinet Office 2013a.
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Cabinet Office 2013b.
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Cabinet Office 2013c.
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Cabinet Office 2015.
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Cabinet Office 2013d.
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Cabinet Office 2016.
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Cabinet Office and Government Digital Service 2017.
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Cabinet Office and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 2014.
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Open Data Institute 2015a.
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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Elizabeth Truss 2015.
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Broad 2016.
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LIDAR stands for light detection and ranging. It is an optical remote-sensing technique that uses laser light to densely sample the surface of the earth, producing highly accurate x, y, z measurements (ESRI 2018).
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Open Data Institute 2018.
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https://data.london.gov.uk/. Accessed May 2018.
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https://datamillnorth.org/. Accessed May 2018.
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Local Government Association 2018.
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Open Banking 2018.
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Open Data Institute and Sport England 2018.
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360Giving 2018.
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Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority 2010.
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Welle Donker et al. 2017.
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Open Data Institute 2014.
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The Conservative and Unionist Party 2017.
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Open Data Institute 2016a.
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An MOT is a test which, by UK law, must be made each year on all road vehicles that are more than 3 years old, in order to check that they are safe to drive (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mot. Accessed May 2018).
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Open Data Institute 2015b.
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Newbery et al. 2008.
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Deloitte 2012.
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Shakespeare 2013.
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Deloitte 2017.
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Open Data Institute 2016b.
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Nesta 2015.
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Open Data Institute 2015c.
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Open Data Institute 2015d.
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Open Data Institute 2016c.
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HM Treasury 2017.
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This research is part of the project ‘Effective Governance of Open Spatial Data’ (E-GOS). This project is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 706999.
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Vancauwenberghe, G., Fawcett, J. (2018). Open Data in the United Kingdom. In: van Loenen, B., Vancauwenberghe, G., Crompvoets, J. (eds) Open Data Exposed. Information Technology and Law Series, vol 30. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-261-3_10
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