In general, when making bulk requests it is *NOT* sending all the requests that is the hard bit. This is surprisingly quick when copying and pasting in WhatDoTheyKnow.
It is reading all the responses, chasing them (perhaps to the ICO), interpreting them in a uniform way, and presenting that data. If you've got the resource to handle all the responses, the additional burden of managing sending all the requests will be tiny. While I think there are imaginative ways WhatDoTheyKnow could in principle help with managing bulk requests, I wouldn't let it stop you creating a (possibly collaborative - a share Google Spreadsheet and the right community could work wonders) project to make them now! Francis On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:47:57PM +0000, Nick Leaton wrote: > I've a FOI request in to a council for its Traffic Management Orders. > > These are the documents that the council needs to have in place in > order to enforce parking restrictions. > > Clearly its useful information, and for individuals to request from > one council doesn't really get them into the public domain in a > searchable form. > > What's needed is the ability to submit to all councils, and then > periodically for updates, and to centralise the publication. > > A similar sort of document would be a list, and preferably a GIS of > conservation areas. > > I suspect there are some other similarly types of requests where you > want to bulk FOI councils, or groups of organisations. > > Since you don't want abuses of an FOI system, you probably want some > sort of vetting, but it would always be open for > someone to mash up an interface to whatdotheknow. > > Viable or not? > > -- > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/francis%40mysociety.org > _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
