When creating an RSS feed, one should have two audiences in mind: first is your human readers that will be subscribing with their news readers, second are the computers that will be mixing your feed with others, and transforming your feed into other formats (iCal feeds, integrating it into a website, etc.) For committees in [...]
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Committee Feeds: Some Recommendations
March 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · Structured Data
States are leading the way with downloadable legislative databases
February 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments
I’ve blogged here before (1, 2) about how publishing raw, structured data that can be processed by computers can have unpredictable benefits, and I feel strongly that Congress should provide a raw database download of the status of all legislation. (They have the database already; it’s what powers THOMAS.) I didn’t realize, though, that [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · Structured Data
Mash-ups for government transparency
January 25th, 2007 · 6 Comments
A few years ago I launched GovTrack.us. I didn’t think of it this way at the time, but these days you might call it a mash-up of data about the U.S. Congress. At the time what I was thinking was just collecting information about Congress from various sources (THOMAS, the Senate website, and the House [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · Structured Data
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