Workflow – many datasets have metadata associated with them. This describes the data, how it was collected and may include useful comments. If you’re not careful you can lose this in the creation of the new dataset. We also wanted to try to avoid manually creating “new defacto” datasets which were not easily updated. Nesstar through to our RESTful API and infrastructure are part of next phase of work.
We’re currently designing the API and infrastructure whilst the data team works on the final two datasets. We’ve also heard that there is going to be a quality assessment lebanon rcs data tool from the Open Data Institute which will serve as a reference to discover good quality datasets that other people are making available. Finally, one of our Innovation Fund sister projects from the University of Liverpool is also looking at a programmatic API for census information from 2011. We’ll be investigating this further in the coming months.
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