Thanks Chris. I knew you were doing this for local elections but hadnt been tracking it. At least I should map the parties across to your site and the election commission - I also need to map the constituencies themselves if they are on your site - also to the ONS and OS sets.
I'd be interested to compare the data models but I couldn't find any info. I guess this is partly because Jeni T has opted for reuse of existing vocabularues whereas my experimental approach has been data model driven with a local vocabulary which can be mapped to existing vocabs. Chris On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Chris Taggart <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >> > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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