There was some discussion wrt using the crowdsourcing framework from YourNextMP.com to do candidates at the local elections, the main issues being,
- There being several times more local candidates than westminster candidates - The interest per-candidate is lower, so overall there's less incentive for volunteers and potential users of the data - Data could be harder to come by for feeding in as a baseline dataset -- I can't find a list of local candidates on the labour.org.uk site. - The electoral commission should do it (though waiting for them to do it seems hopeless) There's also developer time. I remember there was a slightly lower-tech website that was trying to get volunteers to get local election candidates, though they weren't aiming for completeness. Can't remember the url, though. So yeah, pretty daunting, though I think some element of crowdsourcing has to happen in tandem with openelectiondata.org in order to get completion, and I'm not sure if that's the best use of crowd-time given the impact. Obviously too late now, but there are elections all the time. Tim On 04/05/11 16:33, Matt Ford wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/timothy.green%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
