Open Data Communities User Engagement Review |
Open Data Communities - User Research
Hello! We’re carrying out a review of Open Data Communities (ODC), DCLG’s Linked Data platform. ODC is currently mostly aimed at data power users (i.e. statisticians, analysts, and software developers). But we’re trying to find out how it’s used by different people so we can make some recommendations on how it can be improved and extended, to enable more people to take advantage of the data available.
Since 2011, Open Data Communities has provided access to a range of official statistics for information and reuse, covering data which ranges from housing to the Index of Multiple Deprivation - a dataset that is used by hundreds of organisations to target funding and services. The site allows you to search, access, query and download data as well as providing tools to help you explore and understand the data. If you want to build something yourself using the data to provide your own interpretation or perform your own analysis it’s also available in machine readable formats including JSON, CSV and RDF via downloads and APIs.
To make sure Open Data Communities continues to evolve in the right direction we want to understand how it can help you.
Survey results will be shared with the Open Data Communities team, but no personal information will be published. We may want to contact you for follow-up information - if you don’t want to be contacted, please let us know in question 2 of the survey.
Since 2011, Open Data Communities has provided access to a range of official statistics for information and reuse, covering data which ranges from housing to the Index of Multiple Deprivation - a dataset that is used by hundreds of organisations to target funding and services. The site allows you to search, access, query and download data as well as providing tools to help you explore and understand the data. If you want to build something yourself using the data to provide your own interpretation or perform your own analysis it’s also available in machine readable formats including JSON, CSV and RDF via downloads and APIs.
To make sure Open Data Communities continues to evolve in the right direction we want to understand how it can help you.
Survey results will be shared with the Open Data Communities team, but no personal information will be published. We may want to contact you for follow-up information - if you don’t want to be contacted, please let us know in question 2 of the survey.
If you'd like to find out more about the review, we've written a blog explaining what we're doing here.
Thank you for taking the time to fill in the survey.