MetadataWorks provides data cataloguing for innovators. Our data catalogue and expert support help the public sector harness the power of their data for good. We make data products FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, saving time and resources and ultimately improving outcomes - from medial research to policymaking.
MetadataWorks is the fastest growing network of public sector data in the UK. We help organisations from the Office for National Statistics and the International Panel for Climate Change to NHS England and Russell Group Universities; find their data faster, streamline secure data access, improve visibility of their assets, federate metadata across platforms, accelerate metadata onboarding, set and promote data standards and report the impact of their projects, papers and outputs.
The organisation was founded in 2019 by co-founders Adam and David Milward. Before launching MDW, Adam and David led a successful consultancy delivering data solutions to healthcare clients. Drawing from their experience—Adam in systems integration at IBM and David as a Senior Scientist at NATO’s NCIA and a PhD researcher at Oxford—they developed a toolkit that improved data collaboration on major projects like the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Recognising the potential of this toolkit, they shifted to a product-focused model in late 2019, leading to the creation of the UK’s leading data catalogue.
