OK. So do we have any meta data about the organisations that requests can be made to?
eg. Local Authority. Quango. ... On 17 February 2011 19:52, Francis Irving <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/nickle%40gmail.com > -- 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
