We are currently in the first phase of the project, with the goal of creating scrapers and flat data files for each of the fifty States
Major goals and phases
1. Collect URLs of State Legislature and Legislative Information Pages
2. Grab legislators and legislation
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislation in each of the fifty states
2. create sponsor relationship between legislators and legislation
3. Grab votes
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislator votes on legislation
2. create voting relationship between legislators and legislation
4. Build tools on top of data
Una vision americana de la oligarquia de los bancos y el trato de favor que reciben. Muy interesante. http://bit.ly/FOw0C [from http://twitter.com/jomiralb/statuses/1213458194]
Migration data for the United States are based on year-to-year address changes reported on individual income tax returns filed with the IRS. Data for some years are free, other years for sale.
NDIIPP Project. The Minnesota Historical Society is working with representatives from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the California Digital Library (CDL), as well as representatives from the states of California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Vermont who are involved in preserving and providing access to government information. The goal of working with these partners is to address common concerns in preserving state government digital information. The All Partners Meeting held in December 2008 was the first time that all of the representatives were brought together.
J. &, and K. Pettigrew. Library Journal, 125 (2):
44(02/01 2000)M3: Article; Durrance &, Joan C. Pettigrew, Karen E.; Source Information: 02/01/2000, Vol. 125 Issue 2, p44; Subject Term: COMMUNITY information services; Subject Term: LIBRARIES & community; Subject Term: LIBRARIES -- Automation; Subject Term: PUBLIC libraries; Subject Term: UNITED States; NAICS/Industry Codes: 519120 Libraries and Archives; Number of Pages: 3p; Illustrations: 1 graph, 3bw; Document Type: Article; Full Text Word Count: 2346.