[open-government] [euopendata] Idea: screen scraping sprint

Fri Oct 1 20:29:04 UTC 2010

  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
>>
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