{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.dataliberate.com\/2011\/01\/28\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt2\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.dataliberate.com\/2011\/01\/28\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt2\/","headline":"Linked Spending Data \u2013 How and Why Bother Pt2","name":"Linked Spending Data \u2013 How and Why Bother Pt2","description":"I started the previous post in this mini-series with an assumption \u2013 ..working on the assumption that publishing this [local government spending] data is a good thing. That post attracted several comments, fortunately none challenging the assumption.\u00a0\u00a0 So learning from that experience I am going to start with another assumption in this post.\u00a0 Publishing Local Authority data, such as local spending data, as \u2018Linked Data\u2019 is also a good thing.\u00a0 Those new to this mini-series, check back to the previous post for my reasoning behind the assertion. In this post I am going to be concentrating more on the How <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataliberate.com\/2011\/01\/28\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt2\/\">...<\/a><\/span>","datePublished":"2011-01-28","dateModified":"2011-01-28","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.dataliberate.com\/author\/richard-wallis\/#Person","name":"Richard Wallis","url":"https:\/\/www.dataliberate.com\/author\/richard-wallis\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfc30377fdeb159bbd38ccbec398d54c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfc30377fdeb159bbd38ccbec398d54c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Data Liberate","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dev.dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Data_Liberate_Logo-200.png","url":"https:\/\/dev.dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Data_Liberate_Logo-200.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/blogs.talis.com\/nodalities\/files\/2011\/01\/linkedlocalgov.jpg","url":"http:\/\/blogs.talis.com\/nodalities\/files\/2011\/01\/linkedlocalgov.jpg","height":"119","width":"345"},"url":"https:\/\/www.dataliberate.com\/2011\/01\/28\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt2\/","about":["Government","Linked Data","Local Government","Open Data"],"wordCount":1036,"keywords":["#linkeddata","LGID","Lichfield","Linked Data","localgov","RDF","transparent government","URI"]}