House Admin Committee Meeting on Transparency Thursday
Jim Harper
As many of you already know, the House Administration Committee is holding a meeting Thursday that will examine the legislative data situation --- from what is out there to what should be out there.
Using all the work we've done over the last year, we've put together a list of things that should be identified inline in congressional documents. We've noted existing vocabularies for many of them and even put together possible XML representations for many. The spreadsheet linked to in the blog post below is best read with reference to the data models also linked to in the blog post below.
Hopefully, this will add to the discussion at the meeting Thursday and chart a course for improvement throughout the year.
The usual caveats apply: This can't be the last word, and there's much refining of this work to do. But this is a good run at getting listed the things that we need to see in legislative data.
Thanks for the help and ideas coming from so many of you!
Infomation and links to all the documents can be found in this post:
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/helping-the-house-advance-data-transparency/
Transparency, baby!
Jim
Jim Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies
The Cato Institute