Local Government

= Opening Up Local Government Data =

See also blog post on Opening up local government data?

Recommendations for opening up local government data

 * Put material under an open license (see http://opendefinition.org/licenses)
 * Publish material in machine readable formats
 * Publish raw data in addition to exposing material via APIs (see Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now)

Examples and initiatives

 * For a list of existing open data from UK local government, see http://ckan.net/tag/read/local-authorities