On further investigation (I asked a friend, thanks Hakim), there is an API available for each instance.
http://leveson.sayit.mysociety.org/api/v0.1/speech/?format=json The host will obviously change on a per instance basis, and there doesn’t appear to be a way to get a list of those instances from the main site *yet*. Ross On 22 Jan 2014, at 11:51, David Osimo <david.os...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jen thanks for that, I know it has been long time in planning! > We would be interested to use SayIt in the context of our website > CommentNeelie.eu. > Let’s discuss how to do it best, also in view of Ross comments. We use the > XML feed of the European Commission at this stage. > Best > david > > > > On 22 Jan 2014, at 12:42, Ross Jones <r...@servercode.co.uk> wrote: > >> Hi Jen >> >> That’s pretty neat, and it is a much easier way to read transcripts. Well >> done! I’m sure this’ll come in very useful. >> >> I can’t however find a way to get the data out of SayIt. There doesn’t >> appear to be an API or a way to download the transcripts in the original XML >> format. I’d wanted to run some entity extraction tools over the data but it >> doesn’t appear to be open (small or capital O). >> >> Am I missing something? >> >> Ross >> >> >> On 22 Jan 2014, at 11:31, Jen Bramley <j...@mysociety.org> wrote: >> >>> Apologies if people receive this a number of times because it's cross >>> posted over the past few weeks! I thought this might be interesting to >>> users of this list! >>> >>> Hi all! >>> >>> Poplus, the network that mySociety and Ciudadano Inteligente have founded, >>> has taken a big step forward thanks to the launch of SayIt, the second >>> Poplus Component . Our goal is to collaboratively build pieces of >>> technology that make it quicker and cheaper for people around the world to >>> build websites and apps designed to make empower citizens. We would love >>> users, developers, activists NGOs and CSOs to contribute to this network in >>> any way they wish. It could be by building, using, testing or sharing >>> components! We're using the Akoma Ntoso standard format currently for all >>> transcripts we're uploading and we're working on an importer to make this a >>> whole lot easier. >>> >>> But I digress, back to the launch. >>> >>> SayIt exists to make it easy to publish beautiful, easy to search, >>> transcripts of politicians’ speeches, interviews, and the proceedings of >>> trials. >>> >>> We've uploaded some examples from the UK that are demos of what SayIt could >>> be used for: >>> >>> The Leveson Inquiry An investigation into press ethics in the UK >>> The Charles Taylor trial The former president of Liberia’s war crimes trial >>> And the complete works of Shakespeare (you can search them for any keyword, >>> browse by character, or by individual plays). >>> >>> However, the real goal of SayIt is to accelerate the launch of websites, >>> all around the world, that keep track of what is said by politicians and >>> other powerful people. And we’ve built SayIt so that this feature can be >>> added to existing websites without having to abandon all your current >>> technology. The technology is of course open source, free to use and on >>> github, currently it's not that easy to reinstall on servers other than our >>> own, and this is something that we're working on for phase two! >>> >>> We’ve written a blog post about the launch where you can see a little more >>> information about what this component does. Please do browse, use and give >>> feedback! >>> >>> All the best >>> >>> >>> Jen >>> >>> -- >>> Jen Bramley >>> International Project Development Manager >>> mySociety | mysociety.org/international/ >>> Tel: 0044 (0) 7806 604 041 >>> Skype: JenMySoc >>> @mySocietyIntl >>> >>> If you have set up Alaveteli or FixMyStreet please fill in our surveys! >>> FixMyStreet Survey and Alaveteli Survey >>> _______________________________________________ >>> okfn-discuss mailing list >>> okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org >>> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org >> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
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