[okfn-discuss] SayIt Launch

Wed Jan 22 11:42:30 UTC 2014

Hi Jen

That’s pretty neat, and it is a much easier way to read transcripts. Well done! I’m sure this’ll come in very useful.

I can’t however find a way to get the data out of SayIt.  There doesn’t appear to be an API or a way to download the transcripts in the original XML format.  I’d wanted to run some entity extraction tools over the data but it doesn’t appear to be open (small or capital O).

Am I missing something?

Ross

On 22 Jan 2014, at 11:31, Jen Bramley <jen at mysociety.org> wrote:

> Apologies if people receive this a number of times because it's cross posted over the past few weeks! I thought this might be interesting to users of this list!
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> Poplus, the network that mySociety and Ciudadano Inteligente have founded, has taken a big step forward thanks to the launch of SayIt, the second Poplus Component . Our goal is to collaboratively build pieces of technology that make it quicker and cheaper for people around the world to build websites and apps designed to make empower citizens. We would love users, developers, activists NGOs and CSOs to contribute to this network in any way they wish. It could be by building, using, testing or sharing components! We're using the Akoma Ntoso standard format currently for all transcripts we're uploading and we're working on an importer to make this a whole lot easier.
> 
> But I digress, back to the launch.
> 
> SayIt exists to make it easy to publish beautiful, easy to search, transcripts of politicians’ speeches, interviews, and the proceedings of trials. 
> 
> We've uploaded some examples from the UK that are demos of what SayIt could be used for:
> 
> The Leveson Inquiry An investigation into press ethics in the UK
> The Charles Taylor trial The former president of Liberia’s war crimes trial
> And the complete works of Shakespeare (you can search them for any keyword, browse by character, or by individual plays). 
> 
> However, the real goal of SayIt is to accelerate the launch of websites, all around the world, that keep track of what is said by politicians and other powerful people. And we’ve built SayIt so that this feature can be added to existing websites without having to abandon all your current technology. The technology is of course open source, free to use and on github, currently it's not that easy to reinstall on servers other than our own, and this is something that we're working on for phase two!
> 
> We’ve written a blog post about the launch where you can see a little more information about what this component does. Please do browse, use and give feedback!
> 
> All the best
> 
> 
> Jen
> 
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