Making our metadata available on Data.gov.uk...

[MrMikeRose]

We have pages like this - https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/dataset/article-4-direction-area

I wonder if there is an opportunity to play nicely with data.gov.uk and also publish this information there…

Because currently - I think - if I search for article 4 on data.gov.uk I get 5000 records from local authorities and do not get pointed at the MHCLG one

we could then (a) show we are engaging with data.gov.uk and (b) increase the potential users of the data we are producing and also potentially there are LPAs in this dguk list that we could easily get data from that are not currently funded… just a (set of) thought(s)

[stevenjmesser]

The guidance on how to publish data on data.gov.uk should help us do this.

[stevenjmesser]

I've emailed GOV.‌UK support so they can register an account for us.

[stevenjmesser]

They've created an account for me but I've asked them to create one for the team mailbox. Once that's done, we can look at whether we need to add fields from other vocabularies into dataset metadata. Haven't reviewed these at all yet so we might use some of those fields already!

[colmjude]

Sounds like a good idea. Having our datasets listed on data.gov.uk would increase the visibility of planning.data.gov.uk