Meta-data for data.gov.uk datasets

APINational · United Kingdom

A dataset of all the meta-data for all of the datasets available through the data.gov.uk service. This is provided as a zipped CSV or JSON file. It is published nightly. Updates: 27 Sep 2017: we've moved all the previous dumps to an S3 bucket at https://dgu-ckan-metadata-dumps.s3-eu-west-1.amazon...

Trust score

How is this computed?

fair

Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).

Officialnessweight 25%40/100
40/100 from 5 proof signals (domain / portal-backlink / GitHub-org / reciprocal / policy).
Availabilityweight 25%60/100
Last verification succeeded but is older than the staleness threshold.
Metadata completenessweight 20%83/100
5 of 6 recommended metadata fields populated.
License clarityweight 15%0/100
No license declared upstream.
Agent readinessweight 15%25/100
Docs URL present · Homepage URL present

Official Proof

Public Sector API

Proof Evidence

official domain (gov.uk) (catalog: data_gov_uk)

Data access

CKAN dataset (file distributions)

A CKAN-hosted dataset whose resources are file downloads rather than a queryable DataStore, so no column schema could be read automatically. The dataset page lists the downloadable distributions.

Verification Status

No safe endpoint found

Using the API

Query examples

curl -s 'https://data.gov.uk/api/3/action/package_show?id=data_gov_uk-datasets' -H 'Accept: application/json'

Full CKAN dataset record: resources, licence, organization, freshness.

Full API documentation ↗

Dataset

Volume & freshness

Last upstream update

8 years ago

2018-05-31

License

No license declared upstream.

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Source: ckan

Machine-readable & source

JSON

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