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

Sat Oct 2 14:16:15 UTC 2010

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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