1. So you are free to:
1. Copy, publish, distribute and transmit the data.
2. Adapt the data.
3. Exploit the data commercially for example, by combining it
with other Information, or by including it in your own product
or application.
Uploading data: what you can do
The Open Government Licence (OGL) is
applicable across the whole public sector and
designed to enable any public sector information
holder to make their information available for use
and re-use under its terms.
Use of copyright and database right material
expressly made available under this licence
indicates your acceptance of the terms and
conditions below.

2. Uploading data: what you must do
You must:
The Open Government Licence (OGL) is
applicable across the whole public sector and
designed to enable any public sector information
holder to make their information available for use
and re-use under its terms.
Use of copyright and database right material
expressly made available under this licence
indicates your acceptance of the terms and
conditions below.
1. Acknowledge the source of the Information by including
any attribution statement specified by the Information
Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this
licence.
2. Ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that
suggests any official status or that the Information
Provider endorses you or your use of the Information.
3. Ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent
the Information or its source.
4. Ensure that when using the data you do not breach the
Data Protection Act of 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic
Communications Regulations 2003

3. Uploading data: exemptions
This licence does not cover the use
of:
The Open Government Licence (OGL) is
applicable across the whole public sector and
designed to enable any public sector information
holder to make their information available for use
and re-use under its terms.
Use of copyright and database right material
expressly made available under this licence
indicates your acceptance of the terms and
conditions below.
1. Personal data in the Information
2. Information that has not been published, disclosed under
information access legislation (including the Freedom of
Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) or with the
consent of the Information Provider;
3. Departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests
and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral
part of a document or dataset;
4. Military insignia;
5. Third party rights the Information Provider is not
authorised to license;
6. Information subject to other intellectual property rights,
including patents, trademarks, and design rights;
7. Identity documents for example a British Passport

4. How to upload: publishing formats
Local Transparency
For specifics on spending data please visit:
LG Group Transparency Programme
Please Note: these are draft guidelines found on
the LG Transparency website for consultation
and may be amended by the LG group in the
future.
What you need to know:
1. Data can be published in many different formats, such
as:
• A document in PDF format
• A spreadsheet in CSV format
2. The Open data initiative is promoting the use of machine
readable formats, in this case CSV or xml files. LG
advise authorities to publish the data in both formats:
CSV and PDF. Microsoft Excel files should be converted
to CSV.
3. The CSV file should have precisely one header line with
field names exactly as in the example file supplied.
Values must be separated by a comma character.
Please Note: It is unable to deal with non-Western
characters (like Chinese). In cases where you have such
payments, an alternative route to creating the CSV files
in Unicode format will need to be found.

5. Publishing your data
What to do:
Local Transparency
For specifics on spending data please visit:
LG Group Transparency Programme
Please Note: these are draft guidelines found on
the LG Transparency website for consultation
and may be amended by the LG group in the
future.
1. Once the data is in the right format, it should be
published on your website. Wherever you publish the
data, it is advisable to give further information about the
salary data, and to give contact details in case of any
enquiry.
2. Aside from publishing the data on the local authority
website, you can make it more widely known that the
data are available by sharing or registering the data
through: Direct.gov.uk, The national data portal on
data.gov.uk, , The local open Data, CoP.
3. You should make sure that you inform individuals of the
precise timetable for publication – LG Recommends you
give at least 48 hours notice of the date and time of
publication. All media questions should be routed to your
Media/Communications team.

6. Licensing Regulations
Recommendations:
Local Transparency
For specifics on spending data please visit:
LG Group Transparency Programme
Please Note: these are draft guidelines found on
the LG Transparency website for consultation
and may be amended by the LG group in the
future.
1. LG recommends you use the Open Government License
published by The National Archives for more information.
2. A guide for information providers is published on the same
website.
3. The license replaces the previously used terms and
conditions of data.gov.uk.

7. Create a New Page
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What to do
1. Log in using your assigned login details. When you arrive
on your space you will only have a welcome page. To
create a new page, click on the drop arrow key by the
welcome menu and select “Create a New Page”.
2. In the empty field type in what you want to call you new
page, and then press the enter key on your keyboard.
3. Save your new page by clicking on the save icon in the
pallet. Result: Now you have created your own new
page and it is the page currently selected in the
navigator.

8. What to do:
1. Once you have logged you will find you web page.
To mashup the data, you will first need to select
what data you want to use from the Open
Catalogue.
2. On the top right hand side of the page is an action
box titled “Go to edit.”
3. Click the drop arrow and select “Open Catalogue as
a New Page.”

9. Select your data
What to do:
1. Once you are on the Catalogue Home Page, go to
the search box on the left hand side of the screen
and type in the subject of the data you want you
find.
2. After typing in the subject a list of the results will
appear.
3. From here click on hyperlink title of the data page
you want to use, and then click on the Add” drop
key and select “Mashup Builder”.

10. Downloading your data
What to do:
1. Once on the “Add to Mashup Builder”page pick a
place to put the widget so you can find it on your
page. E.g. if you have chosen Google maps a good
category to keep this would be “Tools”.
2. Once you have filled in all these fields click “Finish”
and then return to your space. Next click on the
“Refresh” icon.
3. Please note, when you refresh the page any data
selected to your page will not be saved there until
you have saved your work.

11. Open the widgets on your page
What to do:
1. First make sure you are in Edit mode, by clicking on
the drop key if it says ”Go to Edit”, and selecting ”Go
to Edit”.
2. To open the widgets onto your page you need to click
on the category you placed it under, for example
“Demo” or “Tools”. Next click on the “Add to Current
Page” which is a Screwdriver icon.
3. Once you have done this for all of your widgets you
can now mesh them together.

12. Wire your widgets together
What to do:
1. Once you have done this for all of your widgets you
can now mesh them together.
2. If the dataset you have chosen is receiving data then
you click on the blue “Receive” box and then select
the “Pink text” widget which you want to mesh with
the widget you have just clicked on.
3. The dataset you select from the list will turn pink.
Now choose the content you want to come up. For
example “title” and “Address”. Once you have done
this click “Done”.

13. Test and Save
What to do
1. You can repeat this process again if you have more
than two widgets.
2. Your mashup should now be completed, so this is
when you can test whether it has all worked.
3. Finally click the “Save” icon on the top right hand side
of your page for you to save this mashup.