Inverting assumptions:
Sample data representation problems solve by microformats:
Illuminated Budget resonated with a lot of folks. Reference to finely crafted medieval documents / manuscripts.
Note: Per Silona's request, Tantek bought http://illuminatedbudget.com/ and http://illuminatedbudget.net/ and http://illuminatedbudget.us , all of which currently redirect to this wiki.
Silona also bought illuminatedbudget.org ILLUMINATEDGOVT.COM ILLUMINATEDFEDERALBUDGET.COM ILLUMINATEDFEDERALBUDGET.NET ILLUMINATEDFEDERALBUDGET.ORG ILLUMINATEDGOVT.ORG
Need stories of usage - use cases.
Much Thanks to Silona, Taylor, Betty Sue for the workshop.
Following bills over time.
Campaign finance reform affects everything.
what we're building: an automated machiavelli for the people.
forensic analysis of the wins and losses encompassed in particular bills; those same players will be around next year; pushing different constituent elements of the same agenda; so history is predictive of current and future activity.
the project is similar in shape to the human genome project: analyzing and discovering recombinant power molecules.
a taxonomy of power; multiple toppings on the pizza of a bill; who got their onions on the bill passed who didn't. and what do they want next year?
intrigues political and social classes . betty sue. how to intrigue a large group to work on this tool. like decoding the genome of the honey bee; a tool to tell you how to recombine these elements .first best case would be the environment. a practical amateur chemistry kit for recombining power and remixing power, a mashup, from known constituent elements.
reverse engineering the budget from the embedded political power elements.
if this tool does not give people a way to get a handle on the levers of power in new ways, people in single units and in aggregate, then it really hasn't done anything. illuminating a budget without making it a tool for citizens to change the balance of power is not success. Kevin Jones power tool for the people
a document like abbot suger's document around st. denis. viagra for citizenship
Betty Sue, Sharon, Tim Kevin
Provide a list of simple requirements for either building or buying systems for publishing this information.
Requirements for open data publication:
Raw data acquisition
Annotation
Reporting & Presentation
Data Model - data interface
Presentations
Meta Data Generation
Persistent identity
Reputation - organization - constituent
Moderation
Polling
one system vs. enabling systems across the web
Convert existing data to the standard as described by the requirements for open data publication.
Josh and Lou
Gather all the data that's out there, structured, unstructured, building stories: see Data Sources.
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