I feel like it's a step improvement, and will help people use the site.
However, what I'd have really liked to see is machine readable minutes of the council.
This is something that's a bit of a bug bear having ended up setting up a project awhile back to try and bring-out the minutes etc of the council meetings. We called it MCC Work For You: https://code.google.com/p/mcc-work-for-you/
Sadly within the confines of a hackday we couldn't get as much progress as we'd have liked.
However, as a proof of concept it was useful, and did inspire @CountCulture to go forward with his site: http://openlylocal.com/
I'd really like to see progress in this area, and the encouragement of councils to make progress with making the minutes readable. Definitely helpful for investigative journalists, as well exposing the good work of councillors.
I wonder if there's a plan somewhere for this? I couldn't find it on the site.....
However, what I'd have really liked to see is machine readable minutes of the council.
This is something that's a bit of a bug bear having ended up setting up a project awhile back to try and bring-out the minutes etc of the council meetings. We called it MCC Work For You: https://code.google.com/p/mcc-work-for-you/ Sadly within the confines of a hackday we couldn't get as much progress as we'd have liked. However, as a proof of concept it was useful, and did inspire @CountCulture to go forward with his site: http://openlylocal.com/
I'd really like to see progress in this area, and the encouragement of councils to make progress with making the minutes readable. Definitely helpful for investigative journalists, as well exposing the good work of councillors.
I wonder if there's a plan somewhere for this? I couldn't find it on the site.....