Data.gov.uk

data.gov.uk
Screenshot of the data.gov.uk website homepage, with a headline 'Find open data', a search box, and three columns of the major subject areas available
data.gov.uk homepage screenshot, 2022
Type of site
UK Government website
Available inBritish English
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Area servedUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
OwnerUK Government
Industrygovernment data
URLdata.gov.uk
Commercialno
Registrationoptional
Launched30 September 2009; 15 years ago (2009-09-30)
Current statusactive
Content licence
Open Government Licence
Written in

data.gov.uk is a UK Government project to make available non-personal UK government data as open data. It was launched as closed beta in 30 September 2009; 15 years ago (2009-09-30), and publicly launched in January 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01). As of February 2015, it contained over 19,343 datasets, rising to over 40,000 in 2017, and more than 47,000 by 2023.[1] data.gov.uk is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.[1]

  1. ^ a b Re3data.Org (2014). "data.gov.uk – entry in re3data.org". www.re3data.org. Registry of Research Data Repositories. doi:10.17616/R3Q89G. Retrieved 1 March 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)