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

Mon Dec 6 18:05:02 UTC 2010

Perhaps in gathering all these links and thoughts up, it's a simple blog
post?

Kathryn

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>wrote:

> They should start off with the spending guidelines:
> http://data.gov.uk/blog/local-spending-data-guidance
> There are also some links from that page re other useful stuff. Would be
> happy to do one if it's still needed after reading that.
> Chris
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> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk>wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> - 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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