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August 3 2010, 8.45AM

A Local Spending Data wish… granted

The very wonderful Stuart Harrison (aka pezholio), webmaster at Lichfield District Council, blogged yesterday with some thoughts about the publicat...
July 26 2010, 10.44AM

Local Spending in OpenlyLocal: what features would you like to see?

As I mentioned in a previous post, OpenlyLocal has now started importing council local spending data to make it comparable across councils and link...
July 20 2010, 11.57PM

Some progress on the Local Spending/Spikes Cavell issue

Yesterday I was invited to a meeting at the Department for Communities and Local Government with the key players in the local spending/Spikes Cavel...

Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information.

So far we have opened up data for over 140 local authorities, and more are being added every week, with more information being opened up too.

We currently have information on:

  • 158 councils
  • 9,964 councillors
  • 5,873 committees
  • 48,335 committee meetings

Most of the data is accessible as XML or json data through a simple API (basically add .xml or .json to the main part of the URL). There is also a Google Gadget, an app for Hyperlocal sites using Ning, and a simple javascript widget