[ckan-discuss] Open data teach in in Brussels?

Wed Sep 14 08:13:43 BST 2011

Dear Stefan and Friedrich,

Thanks a lot for your help. I think the dataset http://parltrack.euwiki.org/dumps/ is 
exactly what more-onion is looking for and I have forwarded the information to Florian.

Quite exciting that this information is available as open data! I think that many 
many people and public interest groups working on EU issues would find this extremely 
useful. Which makes me think that it might be a good idea to organise an open-data 
"teach in" in Brussels for public interest groups working on EU issues. Let's start 
thinking about this :-)

Kind greetings on what may prove to be a crucial day for Europe and the euro,

Erik Wesselius
Corporate Europe Observatory

On 13/09/11 20:09, stef wrote:
> hey,
>
> yes, we have full dumps - generated daily: http://parltrack.euwiki.org/dumps/
> also on ckan:
> http://ckan.net/dataset/european-parlament-legislative-activities
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:57:20PM +0200, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:
>> Hi Erik,
>>
>> there are at least two sources worth mentioning: memopol/parltrack and
>> ItsYourParliament. I'm not sure memopol (http://memopol2.lqdn.fr/) has
>> an API yet,
> very rudimentary, individual meps can be dumped as json.
>
> you can find memopol here: http://memopol2.lqdn.fr/
> it takes it's data mostly from parltrack dumps itself, but augments some of
> the ngo specific data from legacy dbs (also available for download, but mostly
> historical value)
>
>> but stef (CC) will definetly provide you with a dump. IYP
>> has an API at http://api.epdb.eu/ but I cannot find MEPs mentioned in
>> it on first glance.
>>
>> - Friedrich
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Wesselius
>> <erik at corporateeurope.org>  wrote:
>>> Florian Engel of more-onion.at wonders if an open dataset with info on MEPs
>>> does exist. He is looking for contact info in particular (surprise ;-))
>>>
>>> I have looked around but couldn't find such info in an up-to-date
>>> spreadsheet.
> it's not a spreadsheet though. it's very structured, and thus quite difficult
> to represent in a flat spreadsheet.
>
>>> Please let me know if such open data sets on MEPs are available?
> i hope my answer is satisfactory.
>

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