[open-government] Antw: Re: Idea: General City Council API

Tue Dec 10 15:11:23 UTC 2013

> who talked what for how long / is
> representing whom / coming from which party.

For clarity, that's referring to a transcript. See Akoma Ntoso:

- Go to http://examples.akomantoso.org/
- Click on "Examples"
- Select one of the "Debate" examples

On 2013-12-10, at 4:07 AM, Johann Hoechtl wrote:

> I slightly hi-jack this thread for a question: Is there a data format /
> sepcification for  council  agendas / meeting minutes. Actually I am
> more interested in meeting minutes: who talked what for how long / is
> representing whom / coming from which party.
> 
> Regards,
>   Johann
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- 
> 
> Dr. Johann Höchtl
> Zentrum für E-Governance
> Donau-Universität Krems
> Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
> A-3500 Krems
> Tel.: ++43 2732 893 2304
> Mail: Johann.hoechtl at donau-uni.ac.at
> 
>>>> "Klessmann, Jens" <jens.klessmann at fokus.fraunhofer.de> schrieb am
> 09.12.2013 um
> 17:23 in Nachricht
> <08183880-8DEC-4FC3-A8B3-8D007BDF2FB6 at fokus.fraunhofer.de>:
> 
>> 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.d
> 
>> e%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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>> Phone    + 49 30 3463 7285
>> Jens.klessmann at fokus.fraunhofer.de 
>> http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus/index.html 
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