On 16/04/2010 15:14, Matt Robinson wrote:
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 <http://LittleSis.org>. A
couple of my colleagues designed the London Datastore.
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It'd be good to tie this into OpenlyLocal data but I couldn't see api
anywhere or way of accessing the data without signing in (may just be
being dense). Difficult to do linked data, esp linked open data at the mo.
Chris
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