记录了《美国政府开放数据了解》、《香港政府开放数据了解》后，继续在圣迭戈这边工作，多数是在住处房间里面上网，也有时跟着儿子去UCSD图书馆去搞我自己的工作，这周又重点了解了英国政府开放数据的情况，现在也记录一篇博客文章。
这是英国政府开放数据的官方网站：DATA.GOV.UK opening up government
我们已做了几个数据集内容的网站：United Kingdom Datasets
与美国、香港、台湾一样，采用的都是开源的CKAN平台，但在具体使用的时候有用很多不同。其中有两个功能我觉得特别棒：一是增加了数据预览功能，目前只支持TXT和CSV格式的数据预览，其它的不支持，但至少比不提供预览的平台要好；而是每个数据集下方都开放了留言功能，这样让人从留言中就可以看出数据集的受关注程度、大家提的意见和评价、数据提供方的反馈等。
我先把首页中列出的主要theme主题分类的数据集的数量进行了统计：
- Business and economy 商业与经济 1163
Small businesses, industry, imports, exports and trade - Crime and justice 犯罪与司法 723
Courts, police, prisons, offenders, borders and immigration - Defence 防卫 190
Armed forces, health and safety, search and rescue - Education 教育 1,363
Students, training, qualifications and the National Curriculum - Environment 环境 13.257
Weather, flooding, rivers, air quality, geology and agriculture - Government 政府 3,062
Staff numbers and pay, local councillors and department business plans - Government spending 政府开支 1,876
Includes all payments by government departments over £25,000 - Health 健康 2,135
Includes smoking, drugs, alcohol, medicine performance and hospitals - Mapping 地图 6.987
Addresses, boundaries, land ownership, aerial photographs, seabed and land terrain - Society 社会 3,168
Employment, benefits, household finances, poverty and population - Towns and cities 城镇和城市 7,730
Includes housing, urban planning, leisure, waste and energy consumption - Transport 运输 1,192
Airports, roads, freight, electric vehicles, parking, buses and footpaths
进入查看后，还有按照发布状态、发布者、授权方式、数据格式、是否提供API、链接是否失效、开放得分等来进行筛选，方便用户使用。筛选结果可以按照热门程度、关联性、发布时间等进行排序。
我就把CSV格式的筛选出来看看，有几千个，我用了大半天也只看到几百个，把适合做成展示网站的进行了记录或者数据下载了解，下面是初步记录的一些：
- MOT vehicle testing stations in Great Britain
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/mot-active-vts
mot-testing-stations.csv - Authorised Testing Facilities (ATFs) and DVSA vehicle test stations
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/uk-open-access-non-vosa-sites
commercial-vehicle-test-stations.csv - Details of GPs, GP Practices, Nurses and Pharmacies from Organisation Data Service
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/england-nhs-connecting-for-health-organisation-data-service-data-files-of-general-medical-practices
england-nhs-connecting-for-health-organisation-data-service-data-files-of-general-medical-practices - National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan
NaPTANcsv.zip - GP practice prescribing data - Presentation level
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/prescribing-by-gp-practice-presentation-level
Warning: Large file size (over 1GB). - Hospitals
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/hospitals_
hospitals/Hospital.csv - National Register of Road Haulage and Road Passenger Transport Operators
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/public_data_csc - Traffic Commissioners: goods and public service vehicle operator licence records
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/traffic-commissioners-goods-and-public-service-vehicle-operator-licence-records - Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/financialsanctions - GP practices and surgeries
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/gp-practices-and-surgeries - Meta-data for data.gov.uk datasets
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/data_gov_uk-datasets - Pharmacies
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/pharmacies - Court locations
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/court-locations - GP Prescribing Data
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/gp-prescribing-data - School Census - Primary Schools
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/school-census-primary-schools - Outstanding providers list
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/outstanding-providers-list - Opticians
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/opticians - Public libraries in England: basic dataset
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/public-libraries-in-england-basic-dataset - URLs to services provided by local authorities
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/local-authority-services - Leeds schools all information
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/leeds-schools-all-information - National Information Infrastructure
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/national-information-infrastructure - 等等
要看懂这些内容，除了基本的英文水平要求以外，最好是能了解该国的实际情况，包括生活、文化、习惯、传统，如果有在那边学习、生活、工作的经历肯定是最好了。我最近在美国这边也接触了一些中国留学生，他们要想毕业后在这边找到一份合适的工作还是不容易的，有很多以后都会回国。我们公司以后也要考虑招收留学生来工作或者实习，发挥他们的优势。
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