[open-government] Idea: screen scraping sprint -> The Big Clean

Wed Nov 10 16:03:16 UTC 2010

Hello all,

The idea of global multi-city simultaneous screen scraping day is moving
forward!

See this blogpost:
http://blog.okfn.org/2010/11/10/announcing-the-big-clean-spring-2011/

We (I and Francis Irving) will be running a session on this at the Open
Government Data Camp on the 18-19th November in London. If you’d like to
attend this session, please add your name to the following list:
http://thebigclean.okfnpad.org/planning

If you can’t attend but you’re interested in helping to organise an event
near you, please add your name/location to the following wiki page:
http://wiki.okfn.org/TheBigClean

We have started the planning, but not defined yet too much... get on board
now and share your thoughts.

-Antti "Jogi" Poikola

On 2 October 2010 19:27, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org> wrote:

> Speaking of elected officials, in the U.S. we have an effort in
> development called:  http://democracymap.org
>
> The idea is to aggregate official government jurisdiction data
> including the official web addresses (led by E-Democracy.org) and
> boundary data (led by OpenPlans.org) for a new open data set of the
> most basic who governs me information (we have 30,000 government
> jurisdictions in the U.S.) on top of which data on elected officials
> can be developed (we have a huge market failure on local official
> look-up in the U.S.).
>
> We have an online working group and are planning a webinar/update
> meeting in the not so distant future.
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
>   Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org
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>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM, aidan mcguire <aidan at scraperwiki.com>
> wrote:
> > Antti,
> >
> > My skype is amcguire62. I will also ask Richard Pope to join the call as
> It
> > was his idea that get us thinking about a world wide dataset.
> >
> > Aidan
> >
> > On 1 Oct 2010, at 21:29, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Aidan and others,
> >>
> >> Great to get positive response. I must say that so far I haven't got
> more
> >> than a vague idea, but we could have a Skype call and brainstorm this
> >> further? I will set up a Doodle poll and suggest some times for the week
> >> that starts 11th of Oct.
> >>
> >> -Antti skype antti.poikola
> >>
> >> On 1.10.2010 19:10, aidan mcguire wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Anita, Jonathan,
> >>>
> >>> If you are planing on doing something in this area then we would very
> >>> definitely like to help if its useful
> >>>
> >>> We did some examples gathering elected members information for two
> >>> countries Ireland & UK and wanted to make a worldwide dataset so your
> idea
> >>> is timely.
> >>>
> >>> Ireland -
> >>> http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/seanad-members-of-the-30th-house/
> >>> UK -
> >>> http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/mp-contact-details-from-parliamentuk/
> >>>
> >>> Aidan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 1 Oct 2010, at 17:04, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Great idea, Antti!
> >>>>
> >>>> Sounds like something that the OKF would be very interested in
> >>>> supporting. Also we should *definitely* talk to Scraper Wiki about
> >>>> this!
> >>>>
> >>>> Aine, Aidan, Julian: what do you think? ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> (Also cc'ing international open government data list…)
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Antti Poikola <
> antti.poikola at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi people,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I just got an idea that we could organize maybe even global screen
> >>>>> scraping
> >>>>> day/camp/sprint with the idea to create open API:s to government data
> >>>>> by
> >>>>> programming screen scrapers to existing public, but technically not
> >>>>> open
> >>>>> data sources?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So far just a vague idea... anybody interested to brainstorm it
> >>>>> further?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Jogi
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Jonathan Gray
> >>>>
> >>>> Community Coordinator
> >>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> >>>> http://blog.okfn.org
> >>>>
> >>>> http://twitter.com/jwyg
> >>>> http://identi.ca/jwyg
> >>>
> >>> Aidan McGuire
> >>> +44 777 5858 565
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> >>> 146 Brownlow Hill
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> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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