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

Sat Oct 2 16:27:12 UTC 2010

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
  Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy
  New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

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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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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