RDF

List of notice types in the London Gazette

ZIP of London Gazette data (47MB)

Ontology for main London Gazette notice types
(Open with an Ontology Editor such as Protege)

The London Gazette, Official Newspaper of Record for the United Kingdom plays a major role in the information infrastructure for government, with 200,000 notices published in 2008.

A wide range of notices, the majority of which are mandatory by law appear in the following broad categories: State, Parliament, Ecclesiastical, Public Finance, Transport, Planning, Health, Environment, Water, Agriculture & Fisheries, Energy, Post & Telecom., Other Notices, Competition, Corporate Insolvency, Personal Insolvency, Companies & Financial Regulation, Partnerships, Societies Regulation, Personal Legal.

Plans are in place to further upgrade the tagging but any change in mark up for the London Gazette (and sister newspapers the Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes) will be backwards compatible. Different types of notice presently have very different degrees of mark up.

The quality of the information in the London Gazette is excellent. Content is published primarily on behalf of solicitors, government, insolvency practitioners and other known stakeholders. Accuracy is absolutely key.

Data can be made available on an ongoing basis in RDFa, XML, Excel and other formats.

The three files on this web page enable you to explore the content:

1. An XML file of all published notices from mid February 2007 to end May 2008.
2. A list and order of notice types.
3. The ontology used for RDFa.

Please take a look at the content, we hope that you find it useful.

If you have any further questions then please contact us.

Notes:

For reasons of privacy the data file does not include personal insolvency information.

Please treat the data as Crown Copyright.