... Besides what Fred posted (thanks Fred), I'm not sure I can even assert copyright over the data --- it's a database, there's basically no creative...
... In that case you have nothing to worry about. :) -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info "Yields falsehood when preceded by its...
Hi everyone, David with OpenCongress here. Definitely count us in on whatever community standards are agreed upon, we're happy to contribute. More details...
Bah! APIs! The next time someone says API I'm gonna jump out a window. I've got a window right here. It's open. I'm ready. The one case an API makes sense as a...
... Let's hope it's a low floor, because I wanted to let folks know we've just released our campaign finance API. Not necessarily of great use to this group,...
... Well, look, I wasn't making a statement about APIs in general. I was responding to a response to my statement about contributing to the commons, and I was...
... Fair enough. I move to strike my statement from the record. ... I guess that depends on what restrictions you do decide to slap on it, if any. I'm not...
*************************************************** WORKSHOP ON LEGISLATIVE XML 2008 the Law in the Semantic Web and beyond December 10th, 2008 Law Faculty,...
The Open Senate Project was launched today. This is a follow-up to the Open House Project, still a Sunlight Foundation project; this time I'm co-coordinating...
I am able to get List of all senate members (with BioguideID) http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm BUT for house, I couldnt find...
... Sort of. It's not always Dec 31, but the date itself is reliable, meaning you can see who served in the 110th Congress by looking for people whose *end*...
If I change the lastname field in people.xml to have non-ASCII characters, e.g. with Puerto Rico's Luis Fortuño getting the tilde instead of Fortuno, will...
I stumbled on this this morning: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/election2008/committees/# It's like those puzzles where you push the tiles around. -- ...
Hi All- I spoke to Josh last week, abut being able to forward an invitation to the list. We are looking to find individuals working on open government issues...
Thanks Scott... But I want BioguideID though..... List of representatives I could get in different formats at http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/index.html ...
If all you need is the 110th, look under the Download All Data heading at http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/. -Neil On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:25 PM,...
... I now update it by hand. It was initially generated from a few data sources. -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info "Yields falsehood...
That shouldn't be a problem for whereabill.org (assuming that the character encoding is still ISO-8859-1), but maybe you can make another announcement when you...
... Assuming that you make this change (and I'm a firm believer in getting character encodings clear from the beginning), I'd encourage you also to make...
I see... I think this serves my purpose for now.... So it seems there is NO Official XML data available either from house or GPO which gives list of Names...
If I schedule the next oGosh chat for Saturday, December 6 at 4pm Eastern Time, will people come? (Reply off list.) The Facebook group now has 146 members,...
A generalized approach for this purpose is to use the http://bioguide.congress.gov website to generate a well-formed HTML file containing your specified...
You are a brother for life ! I reserve a place for you beyond your wildest dreams with my family and the big guy. Your name in the book of life ! I can feel...
You are a brother for life ! I reserve a place for you beyond your wildest dreams with my family and the big guy. Your name in the book of life ! I can feel...
