Also important to note is GovTrack.us which is where OpenCongress and other people (including parts of my data) get stuff from. They also have a SPARQL query engine for their RDF store as well.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Fred Benenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Yes, Cause Caller's db is "open" as its a Semantic Media wiki that allows > people to add politicians and all their relevant info. There is also a built > in API because it stores all the data as RDF triples in XML that is > accessible via Special:ExportRDF. > > Or in other words, you can have machine-readable access to the database as > doing stuff like: > > http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Byron_L._Dorgan > > is: > > http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Special:ExportRDF/Byron_L._Dorgan > > > Good luck! > > F > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hey Herbert, >> >> This is excellent stuff. Perhaps we should do a blog post collecting >> participatory politics web tools like Nelson did for video. >> >> Some more useful sites along these lines, >> >> Open Congress (the grand poobah of this ish) >> http://www.opencongress.org/ >> >> Cause Caller (Fred's project!) >> http://www.causecaller.com/ >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Samantha (Herbert) Tanzer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hopefully this is within the FC purview.... >> > >> > So, election season is coming up, which brings ones of my favorite >> > topics to the forefront - open-democracy/e-government. >> > >> > Anyway. A nifty, nifty set of government web services is from the UK >> > based MySociety.org, which has a bunch of open-source databases, >> > including WriteToThem.com which is a comprehensive listing of all your >> > government, from township to parliament, sorted by zip-code. There is >> > no comparable US data source, despite the creator (whom I've met) >> > encouraging us to steal his stuff. >> > >> > There might be soon. I met a David from America Solutions (yes, it's >> > Newt Gingrich's 527 with that "Drill Here, Drill Now" program, but >> > that doesn't mean they can't otherwise be useful) at my internship, >> > who is organizing a similar project. He plans to create a similar >> > database, not by amassing the data themselves, but by creating a wiki >> > for people to fill in and turning that into a zip-code searchable >> > database. I don't know if the framework will be open source, but I >> > hope so. I plan to ask him about that. >> > >> > I'm going to be communicating with him about this and to see what >> > about e-government projects they're working on. Is there any interest >> > here for involvement? What other e-democracy projects do you know of >> > or want to see? >> > >> > The full list of MySociety projects is here: >> http://www.mysociety.org/projects >> > FixMySteet.com is probably the niftyest, in my opinion. >> > >> > Love, >> > Herbert. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> )_)_)_)_)_)_ >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > >
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