{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2010\/01\/21\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt1\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2010\/01\/21\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt1\/","headline":"Linked Spending Data \u2013 How and Why Bother Pt1","name":"Linked Spending Data \u2013 How and Why Bother Pt1","description":"National Government instructing the 300+ UK Local Authorities to publish \u201cNew items of local government spending over \u00a3500 to be published on a council-by-council basis from January 2011\u201d has had the proponents of both open, and closed, data excited over the last few months.\u00a0 For this mini series of posts I am working on the assumption that publishing this data is a good thing, because I want to move on and assert that [when publishing] one format\/method to make this data available should be Linked Data. This immediately brings me to the Why Bother? bit. This itself breaks in to <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2010\/01\/21\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt1\/\">...<\/a><\/span>","datePublished":"2010-01-21","dateModified":"2010-01-21","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/author\/richard-wallis\/#Person","name":"Richard Wallis","url":"https:\/\/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:\/\/18.130.239.167\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/linkedlocalgov.jpg","url":"http:\/\/18.130.239.167\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/linkedlocalgov.jpg","height":"119","width":"345"},"url":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2010\/01\/21\/linked-spending-data-how-and-why-bother-pt1\/","about":["Government","Linked Data","Local Government","Open Data"],"wordCount":1100,"keywords":["#linkeddata","LGID","Linked Data","localgov","transparent government"]}