An open source, stand-alone, customisable public spending data web app.
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  1. .grid_12
  2. %h2= @page_title = "Council Spending Data Scoreboard"
  3. %table
  4. %tr
  5. %th Council
  6. %th Data URL
  7. %th Open licence?
  8. %th Machine readable?
  9. %th Start
  10. %th End
  11. %th Updated
  12. - for council in @councils
  13. %tr
  14. %td
  15. %a{ :href => council.url }
  16. = council.name
  17. %td
  18. %a{ :href => council.data_url }
  19. data
  20. %td= yesno(council.open_licence)
  21. %td= yesno(council.machine_readable)
  22. %td= council.start_d.strftime("%b %Y")
  23. %td= council.end_d.strftime("%b %Y")
  24. %td= council.updated_at.strftime("%d %b %Y")
  25. %h3 Notes
  26. %p
  27. If your council is publishing spending data please be aware of the guidance from the
  28. %a{ :href => "http://opengovernmentdata.org/finances/"}<
  29. Open Government Data
  30. and the
  31. %a{ :href => "http://data.gov.uk/blog/publishing-itemised-local-authority-expenditure-advice-comment"}<
  32. Local Public Data Panel.
  33. You can ask questions and get support in the
  34. %a{ :href => "http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/c/3916997/home.do" }<
  35. Local Open Data Community
  36. on Communities of Practice for Local Government (approved registration required.)
  37. %table
  38. %tr
  39. %td.strong Data URL
  40. %td
  41. A web page that links to the various downloadable data files.
  42. %tr
  43. %td.strong Open licence?
  44. %td
  45. If Yes, the council is explicitly stating an open licence which allows people to use and republish the data, including for commercial purposes. Councils that don't have an open licence could
  46. %a{ :href => "http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/finance_payments_to_suppliers.htm"}<
  47. follow Windsor and Maidenhead's example
  48. and adopt
  49. %a{ :href => "http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions"}<
  50. the data.gov.uk licence.
  51. An open licence is essential to enable the maximum use of this data and allow it to be combined with data from other councils to enable comparisons and benchmarking.
  52. %tr
  53. %td.strong Machine readable?
  54. %td
  55. The data needs to be able to be pulled directly into a database or spreadsheet from the web, not just visible as a web page or document. Acceptable formats include CSV, JSON and XML. Unacceptable formats include PDF and Word documents which can't be directly loaded as data into another program. It is also unacceptable to use a word-verification
  56. %a{:href => "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA"}<
  57. CAPTCHA
  58. to prevent automated downloads.
  59. %tr
  60. %td.strong Start date
  61. %td
  62. The start of the period for which spending data is published.
  63. %tr
  64. %td.strong End date
  65. %td
  66. The end of the period for which spending data is published.
  67. %tr
  68. %td.strong Updated
  69. %td
  70. The date on which this scoreboard data was updated for this council. If you are concerned that your own council's data is out of date here, please
  71. %a{ :href => '/about' }<
  72. get in touch.