Datasets (sections 11, 19 & 45)

This guidance explains the provisions about datasets in detail and is aimed at public authorities. The dataset provisions give detail about providing datasets in response to requests and making them available as part of your publication scheme. Read this guidance if you have questions not answered in the Guide, or if you need a deeper understanding of how the dataset provisions apply in practice.

• Overview
• What is the scope and purpose of the dataset provisions?
• How do we provide a dataset in response to a request?
  • How does the duty arise?
• Datasets
  
  • Electronic form
  • Service or function
  • Factual information
  • Not the product of analysis of interpretation
  • Official statistics
  • Materially altered
• What’s meant by ‘capable of re-use’?
• What is meant by ‘reasonable practicable’?
• Should we license re-use under FOIA or the RPSI?
• How do we license re-use under FOIA?
  
  • Specified licence
• Fees
• Publication schemes
  • Not appropriate
  • Model publication scheme
• Complaints
• Environmental information
• Practical issues
  • Requests
  • Licensing re-use
  • Personal information
  • Copyright and licences
• Further reading
• Annex 1: Datasets flowcharts