Open Knowledge Conference/Program/Local Government Data

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Back to State of the Nation session

Title

Local Government Data

Authors

Chris Taggart

Keywords

open data, open government

Abstract

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Notes and comments

Talk 2: Chris Taggart Title: Open Local data, Openly Local and The Open Election Data Project

• It's been a good year, opendata.gov.uk, etc

• Electoral data is a mess.

• Councils, NDPB (quangos) are opaque

• History of OpenlyLocal

• Manchester project call MCC work for you

• Screen scrape 140 councils (of 434)

• availaible as RDF, JSON, XML

• Future

• more data

• Use case: Private Eye

• order investigation by the district auditor was a buried PDF

• Local authorities now have a duty to engage

• About power = assymetry of information

• Raises the barriers to involvement.

• Private companies who are outsourced by public money are closed.

• OpenElectionData project

• *succeed, or fail forward*

• there is no public database of local election results

• publish RDFa from page.

• beginning to compile a database of election results

• if it fails, there is a good argument for legislation

• guessing anywhere from 12-40 councils who will publish data.

• What we need?

• A Freedom of Data act - too many different bodies to individually organise

• central gov't needs to change how IT is done. <-- change use of MS Office?

• "enabler or blocker" [sounds a bit like G.W. Bush's with us or against us meme -Tom]

• we just need an 'axis of evil' /dff

• Access of Evil is more appropriate, since Access is evil. -Tom :)