Useful websites
- Data journalism Posts about ‘data journalism’ by Paul Bradshaw on the Online Journalism Blog
- data.gov.uk The UK government’s official repository of public data
- Local Governement Transparency: New Contracts A practitioners’ guide to publishing new contracts and tenders’ data
- Local Government Group Transparency Programme Draft guides for meeting the government’s transparency agenda.
- Open Data Protocol “The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today.”
- Open data, democracy and public sector reform Tim Davies’ dissertation for the Oxford Internet Institute
- Open Government Licence Open Government Licence for public sector information
- Pezholio Stuart Harrison (aka ‘Pezholio’) is webmaster of Lichfield District Council and a pioneer of using and publishing local public data. He writes a lot of helpful stuff for local authority employees getting to grips with open data.
- Public Sector Information Unlocking Service Government service that helps get data to you that is currently difficult to access.
- UK Councils Open Data Scoreboard Lists the councils that do and don’t publish open data
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