Archive for December, 2011
Collecting data about the local voluntary sector
Thanks again for all of the feedback on those open data posts recently.
Just to recap, I’m helping to organise an open data project for some school pupils within the a London borough in the new year. One of the big tasks is to flush out all of the data that may be available.
I’m going to be taking subject areas such as crime, health, education/children’s services separately and posting on each of them, using the links and a few ideas that have come from different directions.
My first subject, though, will be on voluntary/civil society activity in a particular borough – in this case, Barnet.
This is a good example of a data-set that isn’t generally available yet in any standardised form, but one that may be of interest to school pupils in mapping some aspects of their locality.
In terms of drawing down experience of a local voluntary sector and open data, Jo Ivens in Brighton has pointed me to the Data for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration site here – a very good set of signposts – along with her own Databridge site.
I started to try and summarise a few good points from this site but ended up finding all of it worth reading – it will prove to be an incredibly useful resource for everybody involved in this schools project. As a taster, I’m shamelessly pinching this video, but the whole site is worth a visit.