The Data Services Platform is provided by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and its agencies.
It supports open access to environmental data for:
- the public
- partner organisations, their staff and contractors
The platform provides:
- open data feeds
- application programming interfaces (APIs), built on linked data, which are aimed at system and application developers
- Defra group’s own applications, built using the APIs and linked data, which show environmental data for various topics