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Legislative data can set you free!
Karen Suhaka, LegiNation Inc.NTen Ignite, April 2012
Hi.
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Legislators 65,570Federal Lobbyists 28,000State Level Lobbyists 163,925Advocacy groups 22,000PACs 4,618
…so what happened to we the people?
Occupy Movement
Arab Spring
Susan G Komen
Rush Limbaugh advertisers
Social Media
Sopa / Pipa
Engage!
Free Query
billsheet
Widgets (share publicly)
Stakeholder Page (share privately or publicly)
http://legix.info/legix/resources/Understanding%20SLIM.pdf
XML schema: Simplified Legislative Information Model
Bulk Access to the database / downloads
API?- Protocol (Rest, SOAP, JSON)- Data sets- Functions / Queries- License
– Need suggestions
– Need clever data users
– Need customers
– Need champions
– Spread the word!
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