Scottish Open Data List

A list of open data resources in the Scottish public sector.

Data is broken into two types - open data, and linked open data.

Key	Definition
A	API
L	Linked Open Data
O	Open Data

Local Authorities

Data provided by the 32 Local Authorities. The data provision falls into three formats: portal, landing page and GIS-only data.

Open Data Portals

The following councils have open data portals - most, if not all, CKAN.

Council	URL	Datasets	Type
Angus Council	http://opendata.angus.gov.uk	32	O
Clackmannanshire Council	http://gis.clacksweb.org.uk	18	O
Dundee City Council	https://data.dundeecity.gov.uk/dataset	48	O
Edinburgh City Council	https://edinburghopendata.info	234	O
Glasgow City Council	https://data.glasgow.gov.uk	offline	O
Highland Council	https://data.highland.gov.uk/dataset	0	O
Perth and Kinross Council	https://data.pkc.gov.uk/dataset	40	O
Stirling Council	https://data.stirling.gov.uk/dataset	3	O

Landing Pages

The following councils have open lasnding pages as part of their websites.

Council	URL	Datasets	Type
Aberdeenshire Council	https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/online/open-data/	19	O
East Ayrshire Council	https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CouncilAndGovernment/About-the-Council/Information-and-statistics/Open-Data.aspx	4	O
East Renfrewshire Council	https://data.gov.uk/publisher/east-renfrewshire-council	5	O
Moray Council	http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_110140.html	8	O
North Lanarkshire Council	https://data.gov.uk/search?q=%22North+Lanarkshire%22	17	O
Shetland Islands Council	https://www.shetland.gov.uk/information-rights/OpenData.asp	4	O
South Ayrshire Council	https://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/opendata/	17	O

Using GIS only

These councils only expose geographical open data using their GIS systems.

Council	URL	Datasets	Type
Argyll and Bute Council	https://data-argyll-bute.opendata.arcgis.com/	31	O
North Ayrshire Council	https://maps-north-ayrshire.opendata.arcgis.com	75	O

None of the above

The following authorities have no open data provision that I can find.

• Aberdeen City Council
• Dumfries and Galloway Council
• East Dunbartonshire Council
• East Lothian Council
• Falkirk Council
• Fife Council
• Inverclyde Council
• Midlothian Council
• Orkney Islands Council
• Renfrewshire Council
• Scottish Borders Council
• South Lanarkshire Council
• West Dunbartonshire Council
• Western Isles Council (Comhairle nan Eilean Siar)
• West Lothian Council

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The sections below list open data provision by the Scottish Government and its agencies. Locating data is not helped by the antiquated Scottish Government website. Searching tends to throw up policy pages rather than data. Thankfully they are testing a beta version website. While that looks much better it breaks many of the links.

Scottish Government / Directorates / Agencies

• The Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure
• Scottish Indices of Multiple Deprivation
• map
• Scottish Government Statistics
• Spatial Hub - 3

Government Agencies Portals

Directorate / Agency	URL	Datasets	Type
Marine Scotland	https://data.marine.gov.scot	276	O
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency	http://data.sepa.org.uk	Unknown	L

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Others of note

This is a great piece of work by ALISS supported by Rory Giani:

Organisation	URL	Type
ALISS	http://docs.aliss.org	A

Background

I created this to support a series of blog posts I am creating about open data in Scotland.

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Errors and Ommissions

If you spot an error - or missing data - please fork this repo and submit a pull request.

Alternatively email me ian_at_codethecity_dot_co_uk with an update.

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Ian Watt
11 June 2018