[okfn-labs] Publicbodies.org and popolo

Thu May 30 01:49:48 UTC 2013

Create an issue?

We'd need OCD identifiers for more jurisdictions. I added one set for Canada. It's quite straight-forward.

James

On 2013-05-29, at 9:06 PM, Philip Ashlock wrote:

> I'm also curious what you guys think about using something like the Open Civic Data identifiers to identify the jurisdictions of public bodies - https://github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids
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> I've started to incorporate the OCD IDs into the DemocracyMap API (though just limited to the United States for now) - http://api.democracymap.org
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> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> I've booted an issue here: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/29
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> Ross (and others): would be great to have input here esp re popolo spec part!
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> Rufus
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> On 20 May 2013 14:58, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Great idea Ross. can you raise an issue and exact CSV header-set we would want ...
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> Rufus
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> On 14 May 2013 13:55, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
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> Would it make sense for publicbodies.org to follow the popolo spec at  http://popoloproject.com/data.html ? I know MySoc are working on an implementation of it, but it would be nice to have publicbodies be a global instance.
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> Ross
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