Britain looks to take Data.gov concept to the next level

The United Kingdom's Cabinet Office is developing a Web site in the style of the U.S. government's Data.gov, and although the Office of Management and Budget got there first, the U.K. version might come out of the gate a little ahead in terms of technology. The essential idea of www.data.gov.uk is based on the same one as Data.gov: Make government data accessible and available for reuse through a single Web portal. However, the British version, developed by Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt of the University of Southampton, could leapfrog Data.gov in one respect: its use of Semantic Web technology, something Berners-Lee recently encouraged the stateside Data.gov developers to pursue.

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