記錄了《美國政府開放數據了解》、《香港政府開放數據了解》後，繼續在聖疊戈這邊工作，多數是在住處房間裡面上網，也有時跟着兒子去UCSD圖書館去搞我自己的工作，這周又重點了解了英國政府開放數據的情況，現在也記錄一篇博客文章。
這是英國政府開放數據的官方網站：DATA.GOV.UK opening up government
我們已做了幾個數據集内容的網站：United Kingdom Datasets
與美國、香港、台灣一樣，采用的都是開源的CKAN平台，但在具體使用的時候有用很多不同。其中有兩個功能我覺得特别棒：一是增加了數據預覽功能，目前隻支持TXT和CSV格式的數據預覽，其它的不支持，但至少比不提供預覽的平台要好；而是每個數據集下方都開放了留言功能，這樣讓人從留言中就可以看出數據集的受關注程度、大家提的意見和評價、數據提供方的反饋等。
我先把首頁中列出的主要theme主題分類的數據集的數量進行了統計：
- Business and economy 商業與經濟 1163
Small businesses, industry, imports, exports and trade - Crime and justice 犯罪與司法 723
Courts, police, prisons, offenders, borders and immigration - Defence 防衛 190
Armed forces, health and safety, search and rescue - Education 教育 1,363
Students, training, qualifications and the National Curriculum - Environment 環境 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 政府開支 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 地圖 6.987
Addresses, boundaries, land ownership, aerial photographs, seabed and land terrain - Society 社會 3,168
Employment, benefits, household finances, poverty and population - Towns and cities 城鎮和城市 7,730
Includes housing, urban planning, leisure, waste and energy consumption - Transport 運輸 1,192
Airports, roads, freight, electric vehicles, parking, buses and footpaths
進入查看後，還有按照發布狀态、發布者、授權方式、數據格式、是否提供API、鍊接是否失效、開放得分等來進行篩選，方便用戶使用。篩選結果可以按照熱門程度、關聯性、發布時間等進行排序。
我就把CSV格式的篩選出來看看，有幾千個，我用了大半天也隻看到幾百個，把适合做成展示網站的進行了記錄或者數據下載了解，下面是初步記錄的一些：
- 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
要看懂這些内容，除了基本的英文水平要求以外，最好是能了解該國的實際情況，包括生活、文化、習慣、傳統，如果有在那邊學習、生活、工作的經曆肯定是最好了。我最近在美國這邊也接觸了一些中國留學生，他們要想畢業後在這邊找到一份合适的工作還是不容易的，有很多以後都會回國。我們公司以後也要考慮招收留學生來工作或者實習，發揮他們的優勢。
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