Great. Definitely worth clarifying that, and it may be worth ultimately building using those sites' APIs to add live-search functionality, when entering info about an organisation.
Chris On 31 August 2012 17:20, Edmund von der Burg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 August 2012 17:08, Chris Taggart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds good. One thing I couldn't see was whether the structure > encouraged > > links to other ids/URIs about the people/organisations. Wikipedia's an > > obvious one, but so are TWFY, OpenCorporates, Who'sLobbying, > OpenCharities. > > That way the network can be navigated beyond the boundaries of the PopIt > > instance. > > I'll clarify that then - we certainly want to encourage that sort of > linking out for both people and organisations. > > In fact for things like company IDs I'd rather it was stored not as a > string '05798215' but as a link to another resource - > http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/05798215 > > This would be in line with the aim to represent all identifiers as URLs. > > Cheers, > Edmund. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/countculture%40googlemail.com > -- ------------------------------------------------------- OpenCorporates :: The Open Database of the Corporate World http://opencorporates.com OpenlyLocal :: Making Local Government More Transparent http://openlylocal.com Blog: http://countculture.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/CountCulture
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