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Learning about Open Data from Warwickshire
Visiting Warwickshire County Council was a great way for us to kick off with our plans for open data. We started off as most Councils did with data about spends over £500 and have since been adding mo…
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Auto-completing search queries
Our search engine (RICE) has a feature called 'auto-complete'. As you type into the search box, it will suggest terms that you might be searching for. To do this we use JavaScript events to respond…
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Why bother blogging?
Is it weird for a Council's in-house development team to publicly blog about the things it does? They're only serving internal customers, so what relevance does it have to anyone outside those walls?…
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Welcome to Project WIP
Project WIP is a blog about the many projects that make up the Shropshire Council website. Our aim is to: Engage with our customers Offer ways for our customers to submit feedback, share ideas an…
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Introducing Shropshire Newsroom
This week we launched a brand new product - Shropshire Newsroom. It is designed to give our customers a one stop shop for all council news, with the ability to share and comment on news stories. We…
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Introducing the Waste Collection Day Finder
This week we launched a new service on our website: the waste collection day finder. This service allows our customers to look up when their bin days are. It uses data from the national land and pro…