[wdmmg-discuss] A How To Guide for local councils publishing their spending data

Mon Dec 6 17:28:04 UTC 2010

Indeed! ;-)

http://opengovernmentdata.org/finances/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/07/local-government-data

Perhaps you have suggestions for edits/additions based on below?

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just met with someone at Lambeth Council and the topic of the >
> £500 spending data came up. It occurred to me that it would be useful
> if there was a simple guide for councils along the lines of:
>
> - Make sure you publish the raw data
> - Give it a license, like $x one
> - The raw data should ideally be available in a non-proprietary format
> (give examples of how to generate a CSV from an Excel file)
> - Put it on a URL that won't change
> - If you add these fields it will make it easier to make pretty shapes out of it
> - Etc
> - Etc
>
> Does such a thing exist?
>
> Richard
>
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