Test results for Open Data - find some
Here is the table of test results for this task. The score on each row is out of a possible total of 20, and the importance column is a rating of 1-5 according to how important testers considered being able to complete this task was.
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| Council | Navigation | A-Z | Site search | Score | Tests | Importance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham City Council | Untested | ||||||
| Birmingham City Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 1 | 3 | |
| Borough of Poole | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 5 | |
| Bracknell Forest Council | Gave up | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | 4 | 3 | |
| Bradford Council | Gave up | Gave up | Difficult | Gave up | -8 | 0 | |
| Buckinghamshire County Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
| Calderdale Council | Gave up | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | -1 | 3 | |
| Cheshire East Council | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 13 | 3 | |
| Cheshire East Council | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 18 | 3 | |
| Copeland Borough Council | Gave up | Very easy | Gave up | Difficult | -5 | 3 | |
| Coventry City Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 16 | 3 | |
| East Ayrshire Council | Gave up | Gave up | Very easy | Gave up | -9 | 3 | |
| East Lindsey District Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Difficult | 2 | 0 | |
| Greater London Authority | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | Gave up | -6 | 3 | |
| Kingston Council | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 7 | 1 | |
| Liverpool City Council | Easy | Difficult | Very easy | Difficult | 10 | 0 | |
| Liverpool City Council | Easy | Gave up | Very easy | Easy | 3 | 3 | |
| London Borough of Lewisham | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 0 | |
| London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | Easy | Easy | Easy | Very easy | 14 | 0 | |
| Newark and Sherwood District Council | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | 6 | 0 | |
| Newcastle City Council | Very easy | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | 16 | 5 | |
| Plymouth City Council | Easy | Very easy | Easy | Easy | 9 | 3 | |
| Rother District Council | Difficult | Gave up | Very easy | Easy | 1 | 0 | |
| Scottish Borders Council | Gave up | Gave up | Gave up | Gave up | -12 | 3 | |
| Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council | Gave up | Gave up | Gave up | Gave up | -12 | 1 | |
| Surrey County Council | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 12 | 3 | |
| Wandsworth Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 5 | 3 | |
| West Berkshire Council | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | Gave up | -1 | 3 | |
| Wokingham Borough Council | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | Gave up | -1 | 3 | |
Specific comments made about this task
Birmingham City Council - 2013-12-18
There's a page /open-data with barely any data on it. The search queries and a-z pulled up that page very easily, but there's no point if there's nothing on there.
Birmingham City Council - 2016-07-14
Had to go to FOI and Data Protection to get to a page called Open Data, but there was barely any open data on there
Borough of Poole - 2014-06-02
Searched for Contracts over £500 - was surprised at how easy it was to find lots of open data in 'Spotlight on Spend'.
Bracknell Forest Council - 2014-03-07
Open data is on a seperate site.
Bradford Council - 2014-03-11
Nothing obvious came up within the search results, but as I didn't know what Open data was I wasn't sure what I was looking for. Again though, not very straight forward to find through the council website again. Disappointing.
Copeland Borough Council - 2014-02-13
The only open data I could find was expenditure over £500 and the senior officers' salaries.
Greater London Authority - 2015-08-17
site is going through renovation so can't expect things to be accessible
Liverpool City Council - 2014-04-07
'Open data' was generally difficult to find if you landed on the council homepage - only users who knew to look for 'transparency' would find the information relating to open data.
Liverpool City Council - 2015-01-15
Data is buried quite deep within council section and under the heading - key statistics. This was difficult to find.
Newcastle City Council - 2015-01-14
In order to find open data using the A-Z index you had to look under Data Protection which would not necessarily be a natural place to look.
Scottish Borders Council - 2014-03-05
I found the FOI archive (uselessly categorised by date requested rather than by topic!) by navigation but not open data.
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council - 2024-04-11
Literally couldn't find anything
Surrey County Council - 2014-02-28
Page is long. Links to the open data are at the end of the page - should they be at the top? Suggest anchor links?
West Berkshire Council - 2014-02-05
I eventually found Open Data when searching direct from Google. On the site it is called Public datasets and feeds so it is not easily located.
Wokingham Borough Council - 2014-10-28
I easily found a click through link for open data using google but I couldnt find one using the councils internal search field