AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Noise Mapping Scotland - Round 4 - Railway (major railway sources) - LDEN

Noise maps showing areas that are relatively louder or quieter, measured in decibels (dB), for major railway traffic noise in Scotland in 2021. Major railways are defined as those with more than 30,000 train passages per year. The data represents the day-evening-night levels (Lden) which are annual average noise levels with separate weightings for the evening and night periods. Day, evening and night periods are defined as 07.00 to 19.00, 19.00 to 23.00 and 23.00 to 07.00 respectively.

Scottish Ministers commissioned strategic noise mapping analysis to meet the requirements of the Environmental Noise Directive (Directive 2002/49/EC), which is legally implemented in Scotland thorough the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006, as amended by the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018.

Noise maps are used to identify areas where noise levels are high and, by linking population data, estimate how many people are affected. This aids in the production of noise action plans to manage noise and reduce noise levels where appropriate.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Noise Mapping Scotland - Round 4 - Road (major road sources) - LNIGHT

Noise maps showing areas that are relatively louder or quieter, measured in decibels (dB), for major road traffic noise in Scotland in 2021. Major roads are defined as those with more than 3,000,000 vehicle passages per year. The data represents the night levels (Lnight) – the annual average A-weighted long-term sound over the night period (23:00-07:00).

Scottish Ministers commissioned strategic noise mapping analysis to meet the requirements of the Environmental Noise Directive (Directive 2002/49/EC), which is legally implemented in Scotland thorough the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006, as amended by the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018.

Noise maps are used to identify areas where noise levels are high and, by linking population data, estimate how many people are affected. This aids in the production of noise action plans to manage noise and reduce noise levels where appropriate.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
National Scenic Areas - Scotland

National Scenic Areas (NSAs) are a national landscape designation of areas that have been identified as having outstanding scenic value in a national context. The designation’s purpose is both to identify our finest scenery and to ensure its protection from inappropriate development through the planning system. They are broadly equivalent to the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty found in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are 40 NSAs in Scotland, mainly in remote and mountainous areas, including spectacular mountain ranges (e.g. Skye Cuillins, Ben Nevis, Glencoe), dramatic island landscapes (e.g. the Hebrides, Northern Isles) and picturesque, richly diverse scenery (e.g. Perthshire, Dumfries and Galloway). They were identified in 1978 by the Countryside Commission for Scotland (a predecessor of NatureScot) in its publication Scotland’s Scenic Heritage, and their boundaries remain unchanged today. All NSAs have been surveyed to record their special qualities that, individually or combined, make each area's scenery outstanding and justify their designation as NSAs.

Tags: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Nitrate Vulnerable Zones

Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) are areas within Scotland that contain surface water or groundwater that is susceptible to nitrate pollution from agricultural activities. They are designated in accordance with the requirements of the European Commision's Nitrates Directive 91/676/EEC, aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources polluting ground and surface waters and by promoting the use of good farming practices. The Scottish Government is responsible for maintaining and improving the quality of the aquatic environment, and carries out a review of the NVZ areas every four years.  In 2016, five areas of Scotland were designated as NVZs under the following regulations: The Designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (SSI 2014/373). The five NVZ areas were designated as nitrate levels from agricultural sources either resulted, or would likely result, in a concentration equal or exceeding 50 milligrammes of nitrate per litre of water in either surface water or groundwater.  The five areas within Scotland, currently designated as NVZs, are: Aberdeenshire, Banff, Buchan and Moray, Strathmore and Fife, Stranraer Lowlands, Edinburgh, East Lothian and Borders, and Lower Nithsdale. 

NVZs were most recently reviewed in 2017 and it was concluded that no changes to the data were required.

Tags: Area management/restriction/regulation zones and r, Environmental monitoring, Water pollution
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Intermediate Zone Centroids 2001

Intermediate zone centroids are point features that represent the population weighted centre of intermediate zones - the geography used for the dissemination of results from Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics (SNS) that unsuitable for release at data zone level.  Centroids were calculated from a population weighted sum of data zone centroids that fall within an intermediate zone.  Eastings and northings for each data zone were multiplied by their population, summed based upon the intermediate zone in which they fell, and then divided by the total population of the intermediate zone. These centroids are in turn used to link intermediate zones to other (higher) geographies via a spatial join, producing a 'best-fit' match between intermediate zones and other SNS geographies.  There are 1,235 intermediate zones across Scotland, and each have been assigned an individual code that follows the Scottish Government's standard naming and coding convention.  The code prefix is S02, which has been assigned to designate intermediate zones.  In most cases, intermediate zones were also been assigned a name by the relevant Community Planning Partnership.  From time to time Local Authorities may choose to update these names, and this dataset will be updated to reflect these changes.

Tags: Statistical analysis, Statistical units, population distribution, statistical data
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020

The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 is the Scottish Government’s official tool for identifying concentrations of deprivation in Scotland. SIMD20 is the Scottish Government’s sixth edition since 2004. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) combines seven different domains (aspects) of deprivation: income; employment; health; education, skills and training; geographic access to services; crime; and housing. These domains are measured using a number of indicators to form ranks for each domain. Data zones are ranked from 1 being most deprived to 6,976 being least deprived. Each of the seven domain ranks are then combined to form the overall SIMD. This provides a measure of relative deprivation at data zone level, so it tells you that one data zone is relatively more deprived than another but not how much more deprived.

Tags: Deprivation, Life in the community, Population distribution — demography, Social issues, social inequality
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Brownfield Land Register

The Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017 sets a requirement for all Local Planning Authorities to establish a Brownfield Land Register. As set out in the legislation, part one of the register is a compulsory requirement and is a list of brownfield sites that the local planning authority have assessed as appropriate for residential development. The Council published this list in December 2017 in line with legislation. Part 2 of the register is not obligatory, however enables the local planning authority to grant 'Permission in Principle' where relevant procedures are followed. 

Part 1 of the Brownfield Land Register was published on the Council's website in December 2017.  The Council will review and update the register on an annual basis, however it has discretion to update the register at any time if appropriate for the purposes of adding, amending or removing sites.


Organization: Vale of White Horse District Council
Food Hygiene Rating

City of York Council’s data on Food Hygiene Rating in the city. The food hygiene rating or inspection result given to a business reflects the standards of food hygiene found on the date of inspection or visit by the local authority. As Such, the food hygiene rating is not a guide to food quality.

The information provided on businesses is updated at least every 27 days and is held by the Food Standards Agency on behalf of the City of York Council participating in the national Food Hygiene Rating Scheme in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Data is georeferenced and can be previewed in a map. It can also be retrieved making use of the API in place. There is an APP available for downloading as well.

For further information, please visit [Food Hygiene Rating Scheme](http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/hygiene-rating-schemes/ratings-find-out-more-en#toc-1 "External link") or the [FAQs](http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/hygiene-rating-schemes/ratings-find-out-more-en/fhrs "External link")

Organization: City of York Council
Built-up Areas (April 2024) Names and Codes in EW

<span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:17px;'>A names and codes file for built-up areas in England and Wales as at 17th April 2024. (File Size 191 KB).</span><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:Arial, sans-serif; color:black; font-size:13.5pt;'><br /></span></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:Arial, sans-serif; color:black; font-size:13.5pt;'>Field Names - BUA24CD, BUA24NM, BUA24NMW</span></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:Arial, sans-serif; color:black; font-size:13.5pt;'>Field Types - Text, Text, Text</span></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:Arial, sans-serif; color:black; font-size:13.5pt;'>Field Lengths - 9, 54, 33</span></div>

Tags: 2024, APR_2024, BUA, Built Up Area, Built Up Areas, Built-up Area, Built-up Areas, Built-up area, Census Names and Codes, England and Wales, NAC_BUA, NAC_CEN, Names and Codes, Names and Codes for ONSPD and NSPL
Organization: Office for National Statistics
Data Zone Centroids 2022

Data Zone centroids are point features that represent the population weighted centre of Data Zones – the key geography for the dissemination of small area statistics in Scotland. These centroids are used to link Data Zones to other higher level geographies and produce a 'best-fit' match. Data Zones can then be aggregated to approximate this larger area of interest or higher level geography for which official statistics might not otherwise be available. Data Zones also represent a relatively stable geography that can be used to analyse change over time, with changes only occurring after a Census. Following the update to Data Zones using 2022 Census data, there are now 7,392 Data Zones covering the whole of Scotland.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Scottish Cultural ProtectedSites

Scottish Cultural ProtectedSites are INSPIRE compliant versions of Historic Environment Scotland designations and national monument records data. 
The Scottish Cultural Designations schema includes the following designation values:
-	Battlefield
-	Conservation Area
-	Garden and Designed Landscape
-	Historic Marine Protected Area
-	Listed Building
-	Scheduled Monument

World Heritage Sites are included within the UNESCOWorldHeritage designation schema
National Monument Records are included in the NationalMonumentRecord designation schema

Tags: Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Green Belt

Green Belts were made possible by the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 but the Oxford Green Belt was not formally approved until 1975. The original designation of the Oxford Green Belt was to prevent the city from extending further into the countryside. The role of the Green Belt within the surrounding districts was to preserve the rural setting of the city. This was the context in which the boundaries of the Green Belt were set in South Oxfordshire through the local plan process.

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states: 'The fundamental aim of Green Belt policy is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanently open; the essential characteristics of Green Belts are their openness and permanence.' Green Belt serves five purposes:
 to check the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas;
 to prevent neighbouring towns merging into one another;
 to assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment;
 to preserve the setting and special character of historic towns; and
 to assist in urban regeneration, by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land

The NPPF also states that the permanence of Green Belts is an essential characteristic (and advises that, 'once established, Green Belt boundaries should only be altered in exceptional circumstances, through the preparation or review of the Local Plan.  At that time, authorities should consider the Green Belt boundaries having regard to their intended permanence in the long term, so that they should be capable of enduring beyond the plan period.'

Organization: South Oxfordshire District Council
Organogram of Staff Roles & Salaries

Organogram (organisation chart) showing all staff roles. Names and salaries are also listed for the Senior Civil Servants.
Organogram data is released by all central government departments and their agencies since 2010. Snapshots for 31st March and 30th September are published by 6th June and 6th December each year. The published data is validated and released in CSV format and OGL-licensed for reuse. For more information about this series, see: http://guidance.data.gov.uk/organogram-data.html


Organization: Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
National Gas Transmission Network - Scotland

This dataset contains data provided by National Gas and is the gas transmission network data only covering Scotland.

This data is supplied on a best-effort basis only and is for indicative purposes only. It uses available information as documented at the time by the transmission network operators.

It can only be used for emergency and land use planning and cannot be used for commercial purposes. 

The data is owned by National Gas Transmission plc and you are required to acknowledge them in your product or application using "© National Gas Transmission". 

Further information is available from the National Gas Asset Protection Team on 0800 970 7000 or at box.assetprotection@nationalgas.com. See https://www.nationalgas.com/land-and-assets/network-route-maps for more information

Tags: Energy resources, Utility and governmental services
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
2023 University of Plymouth Ropes to Reefs EK80, CTD, Plankton and Video Groundtruthing Data

Hydroacoustic survey using a wideband EK80 at 38 and 120 kHz at the Offshore Shellfish mussel farm site 2 in Lyme Bay. The aim of the survey was to assess the relationship between the ropes at the mussel farm and pelagic fish. CTD and opportunistic video data and plankton samples were collected at the same time, where possible. Surveys were undertaken in March, May, July and November 2024.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
University of Plymouth Ropes to Reefs Project 2023_24

The Defra funded FISP Project Ropes to Reefs assesses the ecological and fisheries impacts of offshore aquaculture, notably the Offshore Shellfish Ltd mussel farm in Lyme Bay. The project utilised a range of methods to quantify impacts on the marine environment including underwater video, acoustic telemetry, Hydroacoustic and multibeam echo sounder technology. Surveys were undertaken between June 2023 and November 2024.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Greater Haig Fras autonomous underwater vehicle image survey - raw images (2012)

A collection of raw format seafloor visual images acquired during a survey within the Greater Haig Fras Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ), central Celtic Sea, in 2012. This was the first in a series of surveys to be conducted in this location. A camera system mounted on the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Autosub6000 was deployed during RRS Discovery cruise 377/8 (D377/8), and images were collected from four 4.7 km transect lines. The raw images are provided in this collection, available on request. The images are provided in a raw format unique to the Grasshopper 2 camera system. The aim of the survey was to undertake high-resolution acoustic seabed mapping and visual imagery in a Marine Protected Area, in order to highlight the capability of AUV technology for offshore seabed mapping and benthic assemblage assessment. The work was initially undertaken as part of a Defra-funded project "Investigating the feasibility of utilizing AUV and Glider technology for mapping and monitoring of the UK MPA network (MB0118)", Case study 2: Shallow-water AUV mapping off SW UK (https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/500733/), and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded Autonomous Ecological Surveying of the Abyss project (NE/H021787/1), involving scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), UK. Other supporting datasets available on request include AUV-based multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar and CTD data.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Coastal overtopping data from the CreamT project, August 2020 to August 2023

The CreamT project converted the prototype WireWall wave overtopping field measurement system into a ruggedised monitoring system between August 2020 and August 2023. The system was deployed for up to a year in two high-energy coastal environments along the Southwest coast, UK (Dawlish and Penzance). The system was designed to have a 3-month maintenance interval and was programmed to measure overtopping condition ±3hrs either side of predicted high tide. The wave-by-wave overtopping data were telemetered to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) every 10 minutes. At the time of the project, the coastal structures at these sites comprised a vertical sea wall with small return lip or curve at the top. Both sea walls were fronted by a beach. During the project period the Dawlish beach levels exposed a concreate toe at the base of the wall. In Penzance, the beach covered the sea wall toe and was higher in the southwest monitoring location. The system was designed at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and had previously been validated in HR Wallingford’s flume facility and field tested with Sefton Council (https://www.channelcoast.org/northwest/). During CreamT, three different system configurations were deployed: full WireWall systems each with an array of six capacitance sensors; smaller WireWand systems with two capacitance sensors mounted on a single pole to detect overtopping at hazard hotspots; and a WaveWell using a single sensor on the face of the sea wall. Six datasets are available from the CreamT project. These contain delayed mode data from: 1) a WireWall deployed at the crest of the sea wall in Dawlish; 2) a WireWand deployed at the wall just seaward of the railway line in Dawlish; 3) a WireWand deployed at the fence just inland of the railway line in Dawlish; 4) a WaveWell deployed on the face of the sea wall in Dawlish; 5) a WireWall deployed at the crest of the sea wall in Penzance near Queen’s Hotel, and; 6) a WireWall deployed at the crest of the sea wall in Penzance near the Lidal store at Wherrytown. The datasets in Dawlish provide information about the inland distribution of overtopping, and the two datasets in Penzance provide information about the alongshore variability in overtopping hazard. These data can be used alongside the regional monitoring data available from the Southwest Regional Monitoring Programme to investigate the drivers of wave overtopping. All these data can be visualised in a hazard dashboard developed by the BODC and hosted on JASMIN, https://coastalhazards.app.noc.ac.uk/.  This project was delivered by the National Oceanography Centre in collaboration with BODC and the University of Plymouth under NERC Grant References NE/V002538/1 and NE/V002589/1. Project partners were Network Rail, Southwest Regional Monitoring Programme, Environment Agency and Channel Coastal Observatory.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Processed multibeam bathymetry data from the northeast Atlantic (JC215, 2021)

Multibeam swath bathymetry data were collected with a hull-mounted Kongsberg EM122 echosounder during RRS James Cook cruise JC215 (Principal Investigator Helen Oldridge) in June/July 2021. The cruise was conducted to carry out geophysical equipment trials off the continental margin to the southwest of the UK. The data were edited using CARIS HIPS software by Tim Henstock and exported as generic sensor format (GSF) files for subsequent gridding by users. The data were also gridded at 100m spacing by Tim Henstock in a WGS84 Mercator projection, and were exported as longitude-latitude-depth triples. Funding was provided by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to National Marine Facilities (NMF) under its National Capability Large Research Infrastructure support.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Maskelyne sea level observations from St. Helena in 1761

This dataset contains the measurements of sea level made by Nevil Maskelyne on the Island of St. Helena from 12 November to 22 December 1761, as published in his Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society paper of 1761 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1761.0100). The data values presented were transposed from the information in Maskelyne's original paper into the data file included with this submission by the authors of this dataset. The data have been subjected to various types of quality control by the authors including, in particular, consistency of the tidal content of the sea level time series with modern expectations, and the data have been studied within a modern reanalysis (submitted for publication). The purpose of this dataset is to make the Maskelyne measurements more accessible in an electronic form for the benefit of future researchers.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network