[okfn-discuss] SayIt Launch

Wed Jan 22 12:36:20 UTC 2014

Hi Ross!

Thanks :) There is a basic beginnings of a JSON API (just a basic tastypie
install at present) at e.g.
http://leveson.sayit.mysociety.org/api/v0.1/?format=json
The datasets currently there are actually a little bit of a cheat and
skipped the XML format, but it is certainly planned to have them available
in that format, yes, along with a generic exporter of content that might
have come from other places (e.g.
https://github.com/mysociety/sayit/issues/155 ).

(Answer comes via Matthew Somerville, our lead developer!)

Jen

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> 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 <http://poplus.org/>, the network that
> mySociety<http://www.mysociety.org/>and Ciudadano
> Inteligente <http://www.ciudadanointeligente.org/?lang=en>have founded,
> has
> taken a big step forward thanks to the launch of
> SayIt<http://sayit.mysociety.org/>,
> 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 <http://sayit.mysociety.org/> 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 <http://leveson.sayit.mysociety.org/> An investigation
> into press ethics in the UK
>
> The Charles Taylor trial <http://charles-taylor.sayit.mysociety.org/> The
> former president of Liberia?s war crimes trial
>
> And the complete works of
> Shakespeare<http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/>(you can search
> them for any keyword<
> http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/search/?q=unicorn>,
> browse by character <http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/speakers>, or
> by individual plays <http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/speeches>).
>
> However, the real goal of SayIt <http://sayit.mysociety.org/> 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<http://sayit.mysociety.org/>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<
> http://www.mysociety.org/2014/01/15/introducing-sayit-a-poplus-component-to-bring-transcript-publication-into-the-modern-world/
> >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
>
> --
> Jen Bramley
> *International Project Development Manager*
> mySociety | mysociety.org/international/
> Tel: 0044 (0) 7806 604 041
> Skype: JenMySoc
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> From: Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk>
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> 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
> >
> > --
> > Jen Bramley
> > International Project Development Manager
> > mySociety | mysociety.org/international/
> > Tel: 0044 (0) 7806 604 041
> > Skype: JenMySoc
> > @mySocietyIntl
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