Chris You should probably take a look at the OpenElectionData project ( http://openelectiondata.org). It's all about local authorities publishing their election results as RDF -- mainly RDFa, although one system supplier is going to be publishing RDF/XML. The ontology was worked out with the help of Jeni T, and a number of the councils have off their own bat published the parliamentary results as well in this format, although it was originally conceived to be for local election results.
Although the project, which was conceived by me originally, it has since been backed by the Local Public Data Panel, LGA, SOCITM, LeGSB, and it looks like we'll have somewhere between 20 and 30 councils publishing results within the next week or so (about 15 or so have already done it, albeit with some tweaks needed for some of them), another 10 are in the process of doing it. As part of this, we generated resource URIs for all the official parties, and also for polls and elections. Cheers Chris ------------------------------------------------------- OpenlyLocal :: Making Local Government More Transparent http://openlylocal.com Blog: http://countculture.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/countculture On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Seb Bacon <[email protected]> wrote: > That's brilliant. When I get a moment I'll read the blog of your > experiences. It's going to be really useful for me to start to > properly understand SPARQL, eXist-db, et al. > > Seb > > On 12 May 2010 11:41, Chris Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've created a prototype RDF-based application containing Constituencies > and > > Election results. > > > > http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/Scrape/home.xq?model=Election > > > > Thanks to Matthew, I think I have the constituency names right. There are > > links to some mySociety sites and I'd like to add others and of course > other > > datasets. > > > > I hope the approach I've taken here makes this use of RDF understandable > to > > users and I'd love to know what you think of this work. > > > > Chris Wallace > > > > Bristol > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list [email protected] > > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > > > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > > > > > -- > skype: seb.bacon > mobile: 07790 939224 > land: 020 8123 9473 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > --
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