After weeks of parliamentary “ping-pong,” the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill has cleared its final hurdles and now awaits Royal Assent, at which point it becomes the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises opportunities for greater economic efficiency and quality of life around the world, but may also bring new socio-technical challenges and safety risks that ...

Data is the foundation of AI. Poor quality data drives up costs and can lead to hidden problems for AI, especially in complex fields like healthcare. Meanwhile, biased data negatively affects the ...

Geospatial data is about places. It might be about a specific building, a river or other natural feature, or a broader location like a city or country. This report summarises the desk research carried ...

Read our submission to the UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge, initiated by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council. In January 2025, the UK Government and Matt ...

From October 2024, the ODI will bring Solid - an open standard developed to give individuals and organisations greater control over their data - into its broader data stewardship activities. The Solid ...

Earlier this year, the Labour manifesto laid out a vision for technological innovation going hand in hand with economic growth and societal change, building the UK into a science and technology ...

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DCAT will simplify the process of certifying your dataset as the application will be able to automatically populate some of the answers for you The Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) defines a standard ...

Researchers face a complex and shifting landscape in accessing social media data. Despite the vast social importance of large social media platforms, data access has traditionally been through APIs, ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming industries by leveraging large datasets to create predictive models through Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and ...

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the potential for transformative advancements across various sectors, fuelled by techniques like Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing ...