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

Mon Dec 6 17:29:45 UTC 2010

Sorry, didn't copy the list in my reply to Richard.

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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:26:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Lisa Evans <lisa.evans at okfn.org>
To: Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [wdmmg-discuss] A How To Guide for local councils publishing their
     spending data

There is guidance here:

http://lgtransparency.readandcomment.com/

it is all under 'spending guide' and includes what file format and licensing 
and even about linked data.

Quite wordy though.

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Richard Pope 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
> 
>