Glossary of terms
Key terms
- national dataset
- A dataset that comes from a single source, usually a government department or public body
- approved data standard
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A term defined in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023, section 84(3).
“Approved data standards”, in relation to planning data, are such written standards, containing technical specifications or other requirements in relation to the data, or in relation to providing or processing the data, as may be published by an appropriate authority from time to time.
- data specification
- A data specification is a formal document that defines how data should be structured and formatted
- consultative or informative dataset
- A dataset that can be used to help fulfil planning requirements
- trigger dataset
- A dataset that helps identify the need to complete a planning requirement
- register datasets
- A set of register datasets, managed centrally, that contain defined lists of categories or types. They are used to constrain the values that can be used in certain fields in our specifications. For example a list of planning application types
- licence
- The type of licence indicates the level to which you can share the data and what others can do with the data
- attribution
- Acknowledgement to the original owner/copyright holder of the data
- data
- Information about a planning consideration published according to our data standard
- planning consideration
- A planning consideration is something specific to an area that may impact the outcome of a planning decision
- planning requirement
- Supplementary information that supports a planning application, typically in the form of a report or an assessment - for example, an air quality management assessment
- data modelling
- Data modelling is the process of designing which datasets are needed, which fields should be included in each dataset and what the relationships are between the datasets.
- data point
- Each individual piece of data. Imagine the record is a row in a table. A data point is the content of a cell in this row.
- format
- When we refer to format we are referring to the precise way the data point should be structured. For example, dates should be in YYYY-MM-DD format
- planning need
- A planning-flavoured user need. For example, with listed buildings a planning need is to know whether an applicant needs to apply for listed building consent
- authoritative data(set)
- This data(set) from the commonly agreed-on authority that should provide the data(set)
Stages of our process
- screening
- A first assessment of a planning consideration to help us assess the value of adding it to planning.data.gov.uk
- researching
- A step in our standards design process to make sure we understand the users, what they need from the data and any potential legal issues
- co-designing
- A step in our standards design process where we work alongside data providers to create a data standard
- test and iterate
- A step in our process where we test with users and make changes based on their feedback
- go/no-go
- A step in our standards design process where we decide whether or not to proceed
- prepared for platform
- A step in our standards design process where we have prepared the information needed by data operations ready for them to add a new dataset to planning.data.gov.uk