Re: Call for APIs

Posted by Michael Lenczner on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Call-for-APIs-tp1479p1486.html

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terms of  the justifications for gaining status being really out of
date).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.
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> 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.
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> What other Canadian political data APIs are out there?
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> Jennifer Bell
> http://visiblegovernment.ca
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