Archive for 'Data Provider'
Rights Management Study Survey »
10 May 2012: Dear Data User or Data Provider, As a user or provider of data you will be increasingly aware of the rapid change we are seeing in how we access and use data nowadays. You may also be aware that some areas, such as the mechanisms used to access data and the licences to use data, [...]
Release of v.2.1 of the UK Location Metadata Editor »
1 May 2012: The UK Location Programme has concluded the upgrade to the on-line and download versions of the UK Location Metadata Editor . This release v.2.1 includes the following changes: The option to select Mainland GB, England, N.Ireland, Scotland, or Wales in addition to UK from the Geographic Bounds menu Allowing the entry of plain text or an [...]
Innovation with location at GISRUK 2012 »
9 May 2012: The UK Location Team attended the 20th GISRUK conference at Lancaster University from 11th to 13th April 2012. GISRUK is the UK’s national GIS research conference, providing a forum to discuss GIS research in the UK. The conference was split into several themes over three days. Terrestrial LIDAR Geospatial Distribution and Forecasting Mining Social Media [...]
UK Location and INSPIRE Local Government Workshops »
10 Apr 2012: The UK Location Programme is the vehicle for implementing the EU INSPIRE legislation that defines a standards framework for publishing envionmental, location-based data. Local authorities have to publish data that fall under INSPIRE and UK Location is promoting that, where possible, they should try to publish all of their location data in the same manner. The UK Location team in [...]
Data Sharing Operational Guidance page »
29 Mar 2012: The Data Sharing Operational Guidance series now has a dedicated page on the UK Location website. The first two parts in the series, Policy Context and Licensing and Charging, have been refreshed and the third part, Intellectual Property: Rights and Confidentialities in Data Publishing, was published earlier in March.
Updated UK INSPIRE Dataset Report »
22 Mar 2012: This update to the UK INSPIRE Dataset Report provides a snapshot at 8th March 2012 of the dataset’s Data Providers plan to publish through the UK Location Infrastructure to meet their INSPIRE obligations. Data Providers have assessed over 200 separate datasets as being in scope of Annex I and II of INSPIRE. Following the recent launch of [...]
New Guidance – Intellectual Property: Rights and Confidentialities in Data Publishing »
15 Mar 2012: Today we publish the third part in the Data Sharing Operational Guidance series. Intellectual Property: Rights and Confidentialities in Data Publishing v1-0 provides a guide to help to ensure that data publishers consider rights and confidentialities when publishing location information. The document gives a general overview of intellectual property rights and contractual rights. The guidance [...]
AGI & UK Location Programme Data Providers Winter Workshop – Event Summary & Presentations »
5 Mar 2012: AGI & UK Location Programme Data Providers Winter Workshop Event Summary On Thursday 9th February the Association for Geographic Information hosted a day’s workshop for UK Location Data Providers at its headquarters in London. This workshop was designed to give data providers an update of what has happened with UK Location and INSPIRE thus far [...]
Data Provider Winter Workshop – Outline Agenda »
13 Jan 2012: Outline Agenda We are happy to provide an Outline Agenda for the Data Provider Winter Workshop on the 9 February 2012. UK Location and AGI are hosting the workshop for UK Location Data Providers at the AGI’s central London office from 10:00am. This free event will provide you with an opportunity to: Celebrate what’s been achieved so far Find [...]
Date for the Diary: 9th February – Data Provider Workshop »
4 Jan 2012: On 9 February 2012 UK Location and AGI will be hosting a workshop for UK Location Data Providers at the AGI’s central London office. This free event will provide you with an opportunity to: Celebrate what’s been achieved so far Find out about how people are using the services Learn about download services Get to [...]