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<[email protected]>, Tom 
Steinberg <[email protected]> writes

>> Don't want to get into the debate about grouping the websites together, but
>> just noticed the item on the list "Build TWFY for the five biggest councils
>> in the UK". I vaguely remember seeing on this list about a month or so ago
>> that a group was doing TWFY in Manchester, and it struck me then that this
>> might turn into a template for local TWFYs, without giving more work to
>> MySoc.
>
>I'd definitely say I was in favour of, where possible, volunteers 
>feeding local council data into TheyWorkForYOu, just as Mark Longair 
>wrote the parser for Scotland as a volunteer.

Wouldn't it be better to ask LAs to publish the data in suitably 
parsable (or at least consistently-scrapeable) form (microformats, XML, 
whatever).

I know one large authority *cough* which might be interested in 
collaborating on such a project.

-- 
Andy Mabbett

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