Wotcha, Thought that some of you might be interested in http://directors.mapofpower.com/ – we bought the Companies House appointment snapshot and dropped it into a quick little searchable symfony app so you can browse the data - it's the directors and secretaries of every UK company, cross-linked. Quite handy for looking up your PPCs, ex-MPs, etc. Also handy (if you're a childish prat like me) for looking up funny names (see if you can beat Minge Fan, or Arse Plems Kyentu).
I was wanting to work on it a bit more before making it public, but we just haven't had time. If anyone wants to help out on it, please get in touch, I'd really appreciate it, especially if you grok RDF. We're particularly keen on getting JSON & RDF output running, making the annotations work (half done), and putting some kind of API-key thing on it so that we can keep it free for good causes (like MySociety, DemocracyClub, etc), while managing to make a little bit of money back from others so we can afford to buy updated data snapshots (they're £4k each, so not insanely expensive, but not exactly free either). By way of introduction - hi, I'm Matt, I've been lurking here for about a year since I started developing WhoKnowsWho at Tui for Channel 4. Myself and a couple of colleagues sort of lurk around, belligerently doing good things. I open-sourced WKW, and am currently working on a UK network for LittleSis.org. A couple of my colleagues designed the London Datastore. -- Matt Robinson http://inanimatt.com/
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