Figures

Figure 1 – A timeline of the UK Data Archive and UK Data Service: 2010s – 2020s.

Year Event
2011 Core Trust Seal certification
2012 CESSDA reformed as Consortium,
Formation of the UK Data Service,
Data Centre opened,
Integration of HDS, Question Bank, and Secure Data Service into the UK Data Service,
Move to SSRC building
2013 Co-ordination of the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) – the predecessor of ADR-UK
2014 QualiBank Online launched
2015/16 UK Data Service Impact blog launched
2017 Advising the Cabinet office on its development of the draft data ethics framework, which influenced the implementation of the Digital Economy Act 2017
2019 QAMyData launched
2020/22 CoreTrustSeal,
Early COVID-19 studies are highlighted as key acquisitions,
i-Cem published,
SafePod Network (SPN),
Early COVID-19 datasets released and an online data dive hosted
2021 Early COVID-19 studies are highlighted as key acquisitions
2025 Over 10,000 data collections now discoverable through the data catalogue