Thanks for reminding me about that website. I remember seeing it before
and I think it's the right approach to getting the data we need, the
thought of having to crowd source 279 local authorities with umpteen
wards in each authority is not appealing!
On 04/05/2011 09:32, Harrison, Stuart wrote:
Sadly, I don't think there is. There's no duty for local authorities to
provide election data in any machine readable form, so for most
councils, the best you're going to get is PDFs. The Open Election Data
project (http://www.openelectiondata.org) (masterminded by Chris
Taggart) attempted to get around this by publishing an RDFa schema for
local authorities to publish election data on their website, but takeup
wasn't great (although we're still using it for this year's elections)
and it threw up more questions than solutions.
Stuart Harrison
Webmaster
Lichfield District Council
www.lichfielddc.gov.uk
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