On 16 February 2010 16:41, Timothy Green <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe Edmund ([email protected]) is planning to offer a quite > competitive cost-covering charge for commercial use of the data, > and his data will have more eyes on it from our volunteers.
Your volunteers are welcome to help me maintain any data I may make public. One of the licenses I'm considering using for the primary PPC data allows for commercial reuse without a charge, ie the same licensing approach taken by Openly Local: http://openlylocal.com/info/licence_info > Fair enough if you'd rather do it yourself, but you risk missing out on > trickier to scrape data > such as independent candidates that aren't listed properly on party websites > and data we find and add manually. As to be expected there are many tricks involved in this sort of project. Currently on Edmund's website the PPC lists contain several MPs that are not restanding in the 2010 election. Another issue to consider is the implications of republishing PPC biographies verbatim - is there a risk of copyright infringement? > Not wanting to squash innovation or whatever, but I'd think that developer > time is best spent building cool applications on top of the data than > collecting it in the first place. I agree that value-added data will attract more public and commercial interest. Having accurate and well sourced primary data is crucial. A business model that allows for resources like this to be financially sustainable after the election would be the ideal outcome. Rob > Tim > > Democracy Club http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
