Discover what data is already available from within government funded organisations
20th August 2014, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
This unique day is aimed at any personnel within government departments that have an interest in the Open/Big Data agenda.
Its goal is to show, in one day of short sessions, the huge amount of data, scientific and general, that is already available for use through Open Data agreements. This data is already available for government, commercial, academic and third sector users to access and interrogate but its availability is largely unknown by the wider public.
This event will have speakers from a number of government funded/owned entities that hold large amounts of interesting data.
To come to this event, please email nick.trigg@stfc.ac.uk
Programme of Events:
| Time | Organisation | Speaker |
| Dep 08:51
Arr 09:37 |
Train from Paddington to Didcot Parkway | Please purchase your own tickets |
| ~09:45 | Bus from Didcot railway station to RAL (if miss the mini-buses, taxis are available ~£15/trip) | Bus to be arranged by STFC. If you arrive on a later train, please take a taxi |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Reception and coffee | Conference Room 12 and 13,
RAL, STFC |
| 10:20 –
10:30 |
Introduction and scoping summary | Chris Fleming,
Head of Data and Analytics Government Office for Science |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Welcome and introduction to STFC
|
John Womersley,
Chief Executive STFC |
| 10:50 –
11:05 |
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | Andrea Sharpe,
Knowledge and Innovation Manager (Environmental Data), NERC |
| 11:10 – 11:25 | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | Lee Beniston, Senior Business Interaction Manager (Technology Industries)
BBSRC |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | TBC |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Hartree Centre, Science & Technology Facilities Council(STFC)
|
Lee Hannis, Big Data Innovation Manager Hartree Centre,
STFC |
| 12:05 –
13:15 |
Tour of RAL site
|
Details to come |
| 13:15 –
14:00 |
LUNCH | |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Land Registry | Lynne Nicholson, Senior Product Manager, Land Registry |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Met Office | Alex Bailey – Strategic Relationship Manager, Met Office |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Ordnance Survey | TBC
|
| 15:05 – 15:20 | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | Wendy Matcham
Portfolio Manager, Creative Arts and Digital Humanities, AHRC |
| 15:25 – 15:40 | Companies House
by video conference |
Lynn Lynch, Head of Customer Insight, Companies House |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) – by video conference | Professor Philip Treleaven, Director of the UK Centre for Financial Computing &
Analytics and Professor of Computing. |
Kelly Ryan
Research Facilitator
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford
Wolfson Building
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OXFORD
Oxfordshire
OX1 3QD
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 610691
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 273839
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Blog: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/blogs/researchsupport/