Hello, I've a number of FOI requests which I made but not using the whatdotheyknow website. Now I'm wondering if I could mark it up in XML and submit it to the site for includion. Any suggestions of how I might do this?
Thanks, Andrew Rowland Shaw wrote: > on a related note, An FOI request I made, I was told it could only be > answered by post (at a cost), so I was expecting some photocopies of > old records, but was surprised to receive what was obviously straight > out of a database query. Still, it made it more simple to OCR it back > so I could index it appropriately... > > > 2009/4/13 Adrian Short <[email protected]>: > >> 2009/4/13 Julian Burgess <[email protected]>: >> >>> I've encountered problems along this line in the UK. The act states >>> that the information must be made "reasonably accessible" which the >>> ICO considers to be fulfilled if it is available once in some format. >>> >> I recently put in a FOI request for a quite large data set to TfL and >> I was very specific about the spreadsheet layout that I required. >> >> I'm happy to say that they responded with exactly the data I required >> and in exactly the right format, though I suspect they had no >> obligation to do so. >> >> Still, it probably gave them one less thing to think about. >> >> -- >> Adrian Short >> Campaigning for RSS feeds from every council by Christmas >> http://www.mashthestate.org.uk/ >> >> http://adrianshort.co.uk/ >> http://twitter.com/adrianshort >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
