On 6 July 2012 08:04, Matt Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > TheyWorkForYou doesn't have information about MP's party membership prior to > 1997, is this information from the ParlParse project (which incidentally > seems to be down at the moment)? > > Either way I think it would be good if we could have accurate information on > historic party membership for at least all serving MPs, surely this > information should be available somewhere? > > If I were able to collate the information to whom would I need to send it?
Hello, As Matthew said in his email we're currently working hard on a project called PopIt that will allow you to gather exactly this sort of information and share it with others. It's currently still a work in progress with many key features missing - but an alpha is running that you can try now: http://popit.mysociety.org/ # for creating a new site http://us-presidents.popit.mysociety.org/ # an example site https://github.com/mysociety/popit # the code The idea is that PopIt would be one of the components described in that blog post. It would allow you to store details of people and their relationships to different organisations - for example politicians and their party memberships. It will also store some biographical info and contact details as well. Starting a site is just like creating a blog and once done you can start to enter details. There is a REST API too that makes sharing those details easy, and if you are a developer makes it easy to add data. For your particular use case of historic party memberships it is not ready to be used - we have not implemented the partial dates yet: https://github.com/mysociety/popit/issues/60 Storing dates in this flexible way is one of the things we are doing so that PopIt can handle real world data with all its messiness. If you have any more questions I'd be happy to answer them - here or off list. After all you are our target audience :) I hope that helps, Edmund > Thanks > > Matt Ford > > _______________________________________________ > 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/edmund.vonderburg%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
