Cattell: Project to create an open API for the British Parliament: #ParliamentAPI

James Cattell and a group of colleagues are developing an open API (application programming interface) for the British Parliament.

James’s Twitter list of people working on the project is at http://ift.tt/MisUsB

A discussion board for the project is at feedback.public-scrutiny-office.org ; it was set up by Iain Collins.

The Twitter hashtag for the project is #ParliamentAPI

A meeting about the project was held 12 February 2014 at the Houses of Parliament.

Click here for James Cattell’s post about the 12 February meeting.

Alex Blandford has a new post that expresses his views on the project, refers to some matters discussed at the 12 February meeting, and contains links to some of the resources that project participants are looking at: Parliamentary data – let’s bust this racket .

Earlier information about this project is available here.

HT @jaCattell @iaincollins @blangry

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