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These are the data.gov.uk themes. The INSPIRE themes are mapped to them, according to the "gemet" sections. e.g. under the DGU Theme "Mapping" you see INSPIRE theme "Addresses". The descriptions of the 34 INSPIRE themes are here: http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
[ {"title": "Crime & Justice",
"description": "Statistics on crimes, policing, justice, courts, prisons, offenders, borders, and immigration.",
},
{"title": "Defence",
"description": "Statistics on the armed forces, Ministry of Defence, workforce, health & safety and search & rescue.",
},
{"title": "Economy & Business",
"description": "Industry and small businesses. Statistics, surveys, economic indicators, import/exports and trade. Excludes government spending transactions & salaries. Excludes household finances",
},
{"title": "Education",
"description": "Data collected from schools, universities and libraries. Students, training, qualifications and the National Curriculum.",
},
{"title": "Mapping",
"description": "Administrative boundaries, property addresses, land ownership, aerial photographs, the shape of the seabed and land terrain, general-purpose maps. Excludes maps of any specific topic.",
"gemet": ["Addresses", "Administrative units", "Land cover", "Cadastral parcels", "Orthoimagery", "Coordinate reference systems", "Elevation", "Geographical grid systems", "Geographical names", "Statistical units"]
},
{"title": "Towns & Cities",
"description": "Housing, urban planning, leisure, waste, energy production, energy consumption (macroscopic)",
"gemet": ["Land use", "Buildings", "Production and industrial facilities", "Energy resources", "Utility and governmental services"],
},
{"title": "Environment",
"description": "Management and measurement of the natural environment. For example: weather, flooding, rivers, air quality, living creatures, geology and agriculture.",
"gemet": ["Hydrography", "Agricultural and aquaculture facilities", "Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units", "Meteorological geographical features", "Atmospheric conditions", "Mineral resources", "Bio-geographical regions", "Natural risk zones", "Oceanographic geographical features", "Protected sites", "Environmental monitoring facilities", "Sea regions", "Soil", "Species distribution", "Geology", "Habitats and biotopes"],
},
{"title": "Government",
"description": "Organograms, staff numbers, expenses, staff pay, senior staff meetings, hospitality & gifts, lists of local councillors, department business plans, government buildings. Excludes spending.",
},
{"title": "Health",
"description": "Measurement of health, health care and social care. Includes medicine performance, hospitals, safety, mortality rates and data on smoking, drugs and alcohol.",
"gemet": ["Human health and safety"],
},
{"title": "Society",
"description": "Employment, benefits, household finances, poverty, population, demography, lifestyles, surveys and opinions",
"gemet": ["Population distribution - demography"],
},
{"title": "Government Spending",
"description": "Government spend transactions. Mandated for public bodies (transactions above £25k & GPC card) and local authorities (transactions above £500). Includes grants. Excludes spend totals, budgets and staff pay.",
},
{"title": "Transport",
"description": "Airports, roads, freight, electric vehicles, parking, buses, footpaths and travel statistics.",
"gemet": ["Transport networks"],
}
]
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