Prompted by Roger, I've finally got round to asking the Press Association about using their data on my RDF-based election site<http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/Scrape/home.xq?model=Election>. However the number of votes cast for a candidate in the election is surely a fact and and I thought that facts aren't copyrightable. Most of the data is up on Wikipedia now though scraping from there would hit snags I'm sure.
In case anyone thinks they can use my RDF demo site, this includes the results of all candidates for each constituency and XML, RDF XML and CSV is obtainable for resources and SPARQL Queries Chris On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]>wrote: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/07/uk-election-results-data-candidates-seatshas > a spreadsheet of all the election data results, but doesn't mention its > licensing - I suggest you could ask, it looks like datablog stuff appears to > be pretty open. > > If you happened to convert that data into the XML format > ukparse.kforge.net uses, I'd be happy to stick it up so that the data > found its way onto TheyWorkForYou and its API. :) > > ATB, > Matthew > > Roger Moffatt wrote: > >> What's the most reliable source of election result information that is in >> the public domain and/or open source? We were using the very handy >> ukparse.kforge.net <http://ukparse.kforge.net> data but have hit problems >> with the results in that some of the data is stale as result of the >> underlying sources not being updated (eg the guardian stuff which still >> shows the old majority and swing info (which is kind of expected I guess)). >> I note that some folks here have used the press association data, but from >> looking at their terms and conditions, any such use is strictly off limits >> without payment and written agreement - or are they happy to grant >> permission for free if you contact them? Likewise the guardian data is >> pretty restrictive if you use the api as you are not allowed to keep the >> data for more than 24 hours and I'd prefer to be able to update it on my >> terms, rather than someone else's. >> >> Maybe I'm missing something obvious? But I'm relatively new to the >> election data arena and so may not be seeing the wood for the trees. >> >> What we're doing with the data by the way is a small (currently free) >> iPhone app called MP Finder - which uses opendata from the Ordnance Survey >> for the polygon data for each constituency so that you can just tap anywhere >> on the map to find the MP rather than needing a postcode. We took all of >> that data and wrangled it into a kml file which then drives the webservice >> api we use for the lookup. >> >> But it would be great to get the results sorted as the app is a bit >> lacking in detail without it! >> >> Help appreciated >> >> Roger >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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