We've used a mixture of existing vocabs (e.g. FOAF), and Open Election Data ones. The vocab (http://openelectiondata.org/0.1/) isn't online yet, as I've been full-out dealing with councils implementing this -- though it has been fixed, and you can see it in the code examples on the site (I've added a couple more attributes for various types of rejected ballots for one of the main CMS suppliers who has these stored in the database). Someone has kindly had a go at a first draft of a linked-data version of the vocab ( http://github.com/alexsdutton/openelection), and I was going to have a look at that as soon as the dust has settled. Would welcome your comments/feedback on it.
Where the councils have published parliamentary results, they've used the same format for the URIs as for the local ones, i.e using govt URIs to identified electoral areas (e.g. http://statistics.data.gov.uk/doc/parliamentary-constituency/555), and also for the poll URIs (e.g. http://openelectiondata.org/polls/id/555/2010-05-06/member). The poll URIs for the constituencies don't yet resolve (unlike the local auth wards), because I haven't yet imported the constituencies. Cheers Chris On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Chris Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > > Thanks Chris. I knew you were doing this for local elections but hadnt > been tracking it. At least I should map the parties across to your site and > the election commission - I also need to map the constituencies themselves > if they are on your site - also to the ONS and OS sets. > > I'd be interested to compare the data models but I couldn't find any info. > I guess this is partly because Jeni T has opted for reuse of existing > vocabularues whereas my experimental approach has been data model driven > with a local vocabulary which can be mapped to existing vocabs. > > Chris > > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Chris Taggart < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Chris >> You should probably take a look at the OpenElectionData project ( >> http://openelectiondata.org). It's all about local authorities publishing >> their election results as RDF -- mainly RDFa, although one system supplier >> is going to be publishing RDF/XML. The ontology was worked out with the help >> of Jeni T, and a number of the councils have off their own bat published the >> parliamentary results as well in this format, although it was originally >> conceived to be for local election results. >> >> Although the project, which was conceived by me originally, it has since >> been backed by the Local Public Data Panel, LGA, SOCITM, LeGSB, and it looks >> like we'll have somewhere between 20 and 30 councils publishing results >> within the next week or so (about 15 or so have already done it, albeit with >> some tweaks needed for some of them), another 10 are in the process of doing >> it. >> >> As part of this, we generated resource URIs for all the official parties, >> and also for polls and elections. >> >> Cheers >> >> Chris >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> OpenlyLocal :: Making Local Government More Transparent >> http://openlylocal.com >> Blog: http://countculture.wordpress.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/countculture >> >> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Seb Bacon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That's brilliant. When I get a moment I'll read the blog of your >>> experiences. It's going to be really useful for me to start to >>> properly understand SPARQL, eXist-db, et al. >>> >>> Seb >>> >>> On 12 May 2010 11:41, Chris Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I've created a prototype RDF-based application containing >>> Constituencies and >>> > Election results. >>> > >>> > http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/Scrape/home.xq?model=Election >>> > >>> > Thanks to Matthew, I think I have the constituency names right. There >>> are >>> > links to some mySociety sites and I'd like to add others and of course >>> other >>> > datasets. >>> > >>> > I hope the approach I've taken here makes this use of RDF >>> understandable to >>> > users and I'd love to know what you think of this work. >>> > >>> > Chris Wallace >>> > >>> > Bristol >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Mailing list [email protected] >>> > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >>> > >>> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> skype: seb.bacon >>> mobile: 07790 939224 >>> land: 020 8123 9473 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list [email protected] >>> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >>> >>> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > -- ------------------------------------------------------- OpenlyLocal :: Making Local Government More Transparent http://openlylocal.com Blog: http://countculture.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/CountCulture
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