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uk-algorithmic-transparency

license: other
license_name: ogl-v3
license_link: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
language:
  - en
tags:
  - uk-government
  - ai-governance
  - algorithmic-transparency
  - responsible-ai
  - open-data
pretty_name: UK Algorithmic Transparency Corpus

UK Algorithmic Transparency Corpus

Every published record under the UK's Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS), structured as an open corpus: which public bodies have disclosed which algorithmic and AI tools, and when.


ATRS records	136
Distinct publishing bodies	73
Source	GOV.UK ATRS records
Licence	Open Government Licence v3.0

Why

The ATRS is the UK government's standard for publishing how the public sector uses algorithmic tools in decisions that affect people. It is the closest thing to a public register of government AI, and it is growing. But it is published as a set of individual records, not as a dataset you can analyse. This assembles the full set into one structured corpus: publishing body, tool name, description and date per record.

The picture

136 records span 73 distinct public bodies, led by DSIT, DWP, the Money and Pensions Service, DfE, DESNZ and DBT. The corpus is the base for asking the questions the individual records cannot: which parts of government are most transparent about their AI, what kinds of tools recur, and how disclosure is growing over time.

Files

data/atrs_records.json / .csv — structured records
scripts/harvest.py — reproducible harvest from the GOV.UK Search API

Reproduce

python3 scripts/harvest.py

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Independent, self-initiated open research by Tesseract Academy.