Posts Tagged ‘#opendata’
Simplifying open data
Louise Kidney
Friday 26 November 2010
Louise Kidney takes our hand and walks us through the process of opening up public data, and gives tips on making it as painless as possible.
Maybe you work in Finance. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you work in Communications. Maybe you don’t. But if you work in local or central government, chances are, you’ve heard the [...]
Open Election Data
Vicky Sargent
Wednesday 21 April 2010
The Open Election Data Project came up a few times on Monday.
Socitm and the LGA have now published a joint note to encourage local authorities to take part in this. You can most easily find a copy to download from the Socitm website, but I’ve also posted it in the libraries of the Web Improvement and [...]
Licensing and disclaimers
William Perrin
Wednesday 21 April 2010
The group raised issues about standard licences and disclaimers that local authorities could use when publishing their data.
There were several reports of over-caution in publishing data that could be addressed with a decent disclaimer- eg this apparently real example from a service manager:
‘If i publish this list of streets that were gritted and someone goes [...]
What data sets are local public bodies already releasing for re-use?
William Perrin
Tuesday 20 April 2010
As a member of the Local Public Data Panel I organised a slightly experimental meeting with some people in the West Midlands who re-use local data and some folk from several local authorities in the West Midlands.
For all sorts of purdah reasons I can’t attribute comments – if you weren’t there and wanted to come [...]
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