[wdmmg-discuss] One-click Freedom of Information requests for local spending data

[Chris Taggart]

Thought the list might be interested in knowing thanks to the excellent work
of Francis at WhatDoTheyKnow.com I've now added one-click Freedom of
Information requests for local spending data payments over £10,000.

Full details are at the blog post:
http://countculture.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/new-feature-one-click-foi-requests-for-spending-payments/but
it basically populates an FoI request with the right council, the
details of the transaction (date, amount, supplier, id etc) and the usual
boilerplate, meaning the user only has to add their name.

The key thing, however, is that WDTK have now added the ability to do
machine tags, meaning we can tag requests with information about the
submitted transaction, which in turns mean we can (soon -- just waiting for
Francis to implement) get info for given machine tags meaning we can find
(and show on OpenlyLocal) requests relating to a transaction (and via that
to a supplier).

Feels very exciting, the beginnings of a highly interconnected transparency
ecosystem.

By the way, OpenlyLocal is intending to import all the local council
spending data (and making avail as open data to download). So far we've
imported 233,143 transactions from 34 councils, with more being imported
every week.

Cheers
Chris

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