will somebody please think of the etch-a-sketch On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM, aphid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Metavid has been archiving congressional video, searchable using closed > caption stream text, for 2 1/2 years in free and open formats and are > using semantic mediawiki to handle rich metadata (eg spoken by). You > can do simple searches by spoken text, speaker name, and complex > semantic searches based on data we've scraped from govtrack, maplight > and other related projects (show me speeches by people who have received > more than x dollars from the sugar lobby...). All searches export as > (Miro compatible) RDF and you can do dynamic requests of CMML metadata. > > Speaking of Byron Dorgan, a friend of mine found this gem by searching > for etch-a-sketch. He also turns up for other toys, radio flyer wagons, > huffy bicycles, etc... > > http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Stream:Senate_11-14-05/0:42:09/1:02:09 > > > We're in the process of implementing some new features and skin and > should be launching the new site later this month. We could use some > testers for the new interface, if any of you feel like helping out drop > me a line or say hi in #metavid on freenode. > > Peace, > A > > ps - looking forward to see more fc.students' thesis projects :^D. iirc > causecaller was fred's, metavid was a collaborative thesis between > michael dale and myself (we also started the now defunct ucsc fc > chapter) that's grown into something else. > > Fred Benenson wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > )_)_)_)_)_)_ > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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