hi Matt,
On 16 Apr 2010, at 15:14, Matt Robinson wrote:
Wotcha,
Thought that some of you might be interested in http://directors.mapofpower.com/
– we bought the Companies House appointment snapshot and dropped it
into a quick little searchable symfony app so you can browse the
data - it's the directors and secretaries of every UK company, cross-
linked. Quite handy for looking up your PPCs, ex-MPs, etc. Also
handy (if you're a childish prat like me) for looking up funny names
(see if you can beat Minge Fan, or Arse Plems Kyentu).
I was wanting to work on it a bit more before making it public, but
we just haven't had time. If anyone wants to help out on it, please
get in touch, I'd really appreciate it, especially if you grok RDF.
We're particularly keen on getting JSON & RDF output running, making
the annotations work (half done), and putting some kind of API-key
thing on it so that we can keep it free for good causes (like
MySociety, DemocracyClub, etc), while managing to make a little bit
of money back from others so we can afford to buy updated data
snapshots (they're £4k each, so not insanely expensive, but not
exactly free either).
I'd love to help - I know RDF, and I'm interested in that dataset - I
tried something at Rewired State a while back and didn't get far -
http://planb.nicecupoftea.org/2009/03/12/companies-house-xml-and-rewired-state/
(I wanted to do a 'foaf-corp uk', rather like They Rule).
These guys did some great related work too: http://companiesopen.org/
I'm a bit busy the next few of weeks but if you have specific issues
you'd like addressing I can help.
By way of introduction - hi, I'm Matt, I've been lurking here for
about a year since I started developing WhoKnowsWho at Tui for
Channel 4. Myself and a couple of colleagues sort of lurk around,
belligerently doing good things. I open-sourced WKW, and am
currently working on a UK network for LittleSis.org. A couple of my
colleagues designed the London Datastore.
Libby
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Matt Robinson
http://inanimatt.com/
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