Call for APIs

[Jennifer Bell]

Just before Christmas, the Sunlight Foundation launched an 'Apps for America' contest. To enter, you have to create a contest using one of their data APIs.  

What politically-themed APIs are available in Canada that could be used for a similar contest?  At VisibleGovernment.ca, we've been working building travel and hospitality expense database/feeds, which, as a side-effect, produces civil service HR data that can be used for org charts.  I also know that Michael has perfected a parliamentary vote-scraping feed.  

What other Canadian political data APIs are out there?

Jennifer Bell
http://visiblegovernment.ca


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[Mark Weiler]

Jennifer,

There's data about federally funded research at SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR
http://www.outil.ost.uqam.ca/CRSH/RechProj.aspx?vLangue=Anglais
http://www.outil.ost.uqam.ca/crsng/Outil.aspx?Langue=Anglais
http://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/funding/Search?p_language=E&p_version=CIHR

These databases must have documented API's -- someone had to developed these search engines.

Does anyone know if there are more federal funding programs that list competition results on-line?

Mark

[Cory Horner]

On 6-Jan-09, at 6:44 AM, Jennifer Bell wrote:

> What other Canadian political data APIs are out there?

Okay... i'll get my act together and expose the How'd they vote  
API...  the only real stumbling block has been deciding on a schema.  
Thoughts?

I was going to cheat and simply provide a feed of parliamentarians and  
their vitals, gather feedback, and then repeat... but could go for  
votes, quotes, et al i guess :)

Cheers,
Cory.

[Heather Morrison]

Thanks Mark ~

Wouldn't it be grand if each one of these awards, when completed,  
linked to fulltext of any resulting articles and data sets?

best,

Heather Morrison

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On 6-Jan-09, at 11:46 AM, Mark Weiler wrote:

> Jennifer,
>
> There's data about federally funded research at SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR
> http://www.outil.ost.uqam.ca/CRSH/RechProj.aspx?vLangue=Anglais
> http://www.outil.ost.uqam.ca/crsng/Outil.aspx?Langue=Anglais
> http://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/funding/Search?
> p_language=E&p_version=CIHR
>
> These databases must have documented API's -- someone had to  
> developed these search engines.
>
> Does anyone know if there are more federal funding programs that  
> list competition results on-line?
>
> Mark
>
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[Cory Horner]

On 6-Jan-09, at 12:21 PM, Cory Horner wrote:

> On 6-Jan-09, at 6:44 AM, Jennifer Bell wrote:
>
>> What other Canadian political data APIs are out there?
>
> Okay... i'll get my act together and expose the How'd they vote
> API...

Well, to start...


some simple dumps of what people most often are looking for:

http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/data.php


and some experimental rss feeds:

http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/rss-info.php

technically neither are an API... but frankly all we care about is  
getting data, right?


Cheers,
Cory.

[Michael Lenczner]

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/chrts/nln_lstngs/menu-eng.html

Listing of Canadian charities.
I would be interested in being able to find out more.  And I from what
I understand that Canadian charity law is kinda broke (at least in
terms of  the justifications for gaining status being really out of
date).  I wonder what this data would say if it were more available to
query.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Jennifer Bell <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Just before Christmas, the Sunlight Foundation launched an 'Apps for America' contest. To enter, you have to create a contest using one of their data APIs.
>
> What politically-themed APIs are available in Canada that could be used for a similar contest?  At VisibleGovernment.ca, we've been working building travel and hospitality expense database/feeds, which, as a side-effect, produces civil service HR data that can be used for org charts.  I also know that Michael has perfected a parliamentary vote-scraping feed.
>
> What other Canadian political data APIs are out there?
>
> Jennifer Bell
> http://visiblegovernment.ca
>
>
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