[okfn-discuss] okfn-discuss Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4

[CountCulture]

Rufus

The biggest problem is getting the word out there, to the right people, 
which varies from council to council -- many places is the web dept, in 
others the returning officers, in others ... well, you get the picture. 
So trying to cover all bases, but there more people we get talking about 
it, the better (and if you've got any contacts  then do spread the word 
to them).

The good thing is the approach will work with other elections (e.g. 
Mayoral), and potentially in other countries. I've registered 
openelectiondata.org (because I needed a domain to namespace some of the 
RDF) etc, but if we could get the word out that'd be the best thing.

Cheers
Chris


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> Thought the list might be interested in this new project I've started
> (with support from many people/orgs) in local govt. Details on the
> blog post announcing it:
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> http://countculture.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/introducing-the-open-election-project-tiny-steps-towards-opening-local-elections/
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> Comments welcome,
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> Chris
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> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:47:40 +0000
> From: Rufus Pollock<rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] UK Open Election Data project
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> Dear Chris,
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> This is a fantastic project -- well done on getting this going. From
> reading the blog post my understanding is that what "work" there is to
> be done is inside councils (viz updating their results with RDFa ...).
> Is there anything the rest of us should be doing?
>
> Regards,
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> Rufus
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> On 4 March 2010 12:06, CountCulture<countculture at googlemail.com>  wrote:
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>> Thought the list might be interested in this new project I've started (with
>> support from many people/orgs) in local govt. Details on the blog post
>> announcing it:
>>
>> http://countculture.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/introducing-the-open-election-project-tiny-steps-towards-opening-local-elections/
>>
>> Comments welcome,
>>
>> Chris
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