Emer Coleman (assistant chief exec for London Borough of Barnet)
- has been doing research this year about what data has been collected in london boroughs
- big crisis in public finance after next election — what will happen?
- to have a meaningful conversation, you need to have information available…
- lack of trust at the moment (esp. for MP’s finances)
- GLA holds a lot of data and wants to publish
- already publish financial data
- hoping to put pressure on subsidiary bodies to release more
- invited developers to ask for what they wanted
- 65 developers gathering information
- TfL & transport info is really where they want to get to
- developers have gone as far as they can to push agencies
- “we’re just gonna do it”
- asked “do you want raw data, or with some contextual data?”
- didn’t come to any firm view
- should we just release with the cabinet office?
- now an email list, and a google group set up
- will be running a competition
- aiming to release data store in January
- data avilable
- air quality maps
- number of people in social housing
- school catchment areas
- message coming from developers — just put the data out there
- Daniel Shore (@LDN): what’s the attitude of TfL to scraping the journey planner?
- IanForrester: other authorities (e.g .Manchester) trying to do things too
- DIY Birmingham — scraped version of local authority site, but much more accessible
- Cloudmade: NaPTAN data being imported into OpenStreetMap
- then allows it to be updated, corrected and extended
- Beth Noveck (Obama’s advisor on transparency) has written a book about wiki government
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