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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/education/3 ... data-vault

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Sir Tim claims the site will help stop the expensively acquired Government data going to waste. "It's such an untapped resource," Berners-Lee told the BBC. "Government data is something we have already spent the money on... and when it is sitting there on a disk in somebody's office it is wasted."


If only it remained in an office sometimes :oops:

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I visited data.gov.uk today and it took a bloody age to load and even then there were errors on the page. (8+(

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