In message <[email protected]> CountCulture <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thought members of this list might be interested in knowing that the >Open Election Data Project website is now live at >http://OpenElectionData.org. The project is a group effort (with support >from many different bodies) to encourage and enable Local Authorities to >publish their election results as open data (there is no open, public >database of local election results, only a commercial one). > >It's also worth pointing out that as part of this we needed to have >linked data resource URIs for all the political parties, and so we've >done that in the form: http://openelectiondata.org/id/parties/6 (for the >Labour Party, for example). I have a couple of questions. The above link seems to redirect to <http://openelectiondata.org/parties/6> missing the id part of the url will that have different information on it at a later date? Will the parties pages have more information on them at a later date? For example number of MPs, councillors etc. > >The final digit is the Electoral Commission id for the party, so it >makes it easy, given that, to work out the Electoral Commission page for >the party (or indeed other info they hold, such as emblems). There'll be >a very lightweight API added for the parties in the next few days, so >you can query it by name (or alternative name) and get back an XML >response. All open data of course. I've had a quick play with the xml feed and have produced a list of all the parties, with links to their respective page on your site, and I'm thinking of linking them to the Electoral Commission site of their page as well. An interesting site, with lots to play with. > >Cheers >Chris > -- Kev Wells http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/AleQuest/ ICQ 238580561 You can grow old but you don't have to grow up! _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
