[bigclean] [euopendata] Idea: screen scraping sprint -> 19.3.2011

Wed Mar 2 19:46:55 UTC 2011

Really great response from so many people and special thanks to Daniel 
for volunteering to halp with the site!

About the general categories of data "what to scrape", I think we can 
take the list from below and give it as inspiration for the participants.

-Jogi

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On 03/02/2011 06:36 PM, Chris Taggart wrote:
> Off the top of my head, I'd say (and some of them overlap):
>
> 1) Democratic data: elected members, committee membership, meetings,
> minutes, agendas, electoral districts
> 2) Financial data: spending, accounts, budgets, contracts
> 3) Geographic data: boundaries (inc electoral districts), buildings,
> assets (e.g. schools, hospital, depots)
> 4) Demographic data (often held by national statistics bodies)
> 5) Performance data - education, social care, road maintenance, etc,
> which is often delivered at the local level.
> 6) Policy data: forward plans, zoning/planning approvals
> 7) Transport data
>
> I'd love to see OpenlyLocal be the focus of some of this, in part
> because it makes sense, in part because we've done a lot of the work
> and could avoid reinventing the wheel, in part because it would be
> nice to get other countries' data in there, and in part it would be
> nice to get some EU funding for what up to now has been entirely
> self-funded ;-)
>
> We've also been pretty successful at doing scoreboards that make a
> difference (over 70 UK councils now with open data sections).
>
> Chris
>

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