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March 3 2010 Introducing the Open Election Project: tiny steps towards opening local elections

Here’s a fact that will surprise many: There’s no central or open record of the results of local elections in the UK. Want to look back...

February 13 2010 Tweeting councillors, and why open, connected data matters

A couple of days ago I heard that the rather excellent CllrTweeps website was closing down. At its heart, CllrTweeps was a directory of councillor...

January 13 2010 Yet another UK Hyperlocal Directory… but this time it’s open data

At OpenlyLocal we’ve long been fans of hyperlocal sites, seeing them as a crucial part of the media future as the traditional local media die...

Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information.

So far we have opened up data for over 90 local authorities, and more are being added every week, with more information being opened up too.

We currently have information on:

  • 138 councils
  • 7,857 councillors
  • 4,914 committees
  • 36,757 committee meetings

Most of the data is accessible as XML or json data through a simple API (basically add .xml or .json to the main part of the URL). There is also a Google Gadget and an app for Hyperlocal sites using Ning