2009/4/3 Tom Chance <[email protected]>: > > Hi all, > > The UK Govt has released the new sustainable development indicators. > There's a lot of very useful and important data here, and the best they can > do is a set of clunky web pages and some Excel spreadsheets. > > http://www.defra.gov.uk/sustainable/government/progress/regional/index.htm
Though raw data is always good! > This would be great if offered in a more machine-readable way, with > historical data included. How much work would it be to make it available That would be great. By machine readable I assume you mean something like csv or sql (anything that isn't human readable only excel spreadsheets!). Where would historical data come from? > properly, and what do people think about asking for that? Asking the gov to do this "properly" is probably not that productive though asking for more data probably is ... It might not be that hard to this ourselves. For example we did this for the Millenium Development Goals: <http://www.openeconomics.net/mdg/> And we've been doing quite a bit of parsing and presenting of similar UK Govt Excel spreadsheets for "Where Does My Money Go" (see [1] for parsing code): <http://www.openeconomics.net/wdmmg/> <http://www.openeconomics.net/wdmmg/table/2> It probably would not be hard to knock up something like this for these sustainability indicators. Rufus [1]: <http://knowledgeforge.net/econ/hg/file/a639efe4e1d6/econdata/ukgovfinances/> <http://knowledgeforge.net/econ/hg/file/a639efe4e1d6/econdata/ukgovfinances/data.py> _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
