[open-government] Idea: General City Council API

Mon Dec 9 16:23:03 UTC 2013

Am 08.12.2013 um 16:59 schrieb Antti Jogi Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> It would be great to have a de facto standard format API for city council agendas / meeting minutes. This would be doing the same for decision making data that http://open311.org/ is doing for the issue reporting in cities.
> 
> Do you know any examples or other relevant references to this idea (which for sure is not a new idea):

Hi Jogi,

in Germany since early 2013 there is a voluntary effort to develop a specification for such an API called „OParl - Initiative for standardization of open access to parliamentary information systems in Germany.“ Involved are civil society organizations, some German cities and their public IT service providers as well as German makers of parliamentary/council information systems.

You can find more information in German here: http://oparl.de
Google Translation: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Foparl.de%2F
The current status of the specification is available on GitHub: https://github.com/OParl/specs

I copied Marian Steinbach, who initially came up with the initiative.

Best,

Jens

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