[datahub-discuss] Introducing some metadata and muself

Wed Jun 3 14:15:07 UTC 2015

Hi Harry,

Whilst the health data stuff might be useful on datahub.io (someone should turn on the harvester ;) ) it might be best to discuss this type of thing at the NHSHackDay list (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/nhshackday) , which is more focussed on health - this list is really for conversations specifically about datahub.io ;)

> On 3 Jun 2015, at 14:58, P. Harry E. Coenen <pharryecoenen at aol.com> wrote:
> First, anyone can subscribe to TRUD at
> http://www.uktcregistration.nss.cfh.nhs.uk/
> and get access to most NHS metadata

Whilst this is true, I've had a long running moan, I mean discussion, with some people about the process. 
It turns out the entire registration faffing about is *solely* so that they can email you when data is updated so you're not out of date. I understand the reasoning I guess, but there must be a better way.

> Second, I’ve seen some of your data scraping attempts of old and new NHS sites
> Did the same myself for:
> http://www.hscic.gov.uk/
> https://data.england.nhs.uk/
> http://data.gov.uk/
> https://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/webview/
> and probably with better results

Most of the indicators and HSCIC datasets should be on https://data.england.nhs.uk/ now - the scrapers for them are at https://github.com/nhsengland/publish-o-matic if you're interested. Getting the data out of data.england.nhs.uk into datahub.io should be do-able as well, as I'm not sure whether the nhsengland ckan instance is actually live or not.

Ross.