Dave > > Cleanup can happen afterwards. Adding a "I would like to > report an error in the data" link to the > > bottom of a web page is a pretty trivial development task. > > How do they identify an error in the data; there is no data source > they can compare it to, and omissions cannot easily be identified, > particularly if integrated. >
There are simple factual errors which would be known to many visitors. The likes of address/postcode, Heads name, number on roll, number who sat the paper, school type. But there are always (in education at least) many tabulation errors. Remember what happened with the SATS results last summer? The schools will have plenty of data themselves to check against. They already do so now. Although the visibility of the current reporting mechanism is not quite that simple. I also know of cases where schools have not officially notified DCSF of the appointment of a new headteacher, so the online published data pages are way out of date. No conspiracy issues there; just that no-one had bothered to do it! Feargal _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
