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Here's an
RDF/FOAF
representation of the current Texas State Legislature. It's got names and committee assignments. I don't have email addresses unfortunately, which kind of limits the utility of this document. I might hack it to assume email addresses based on firstName.surname@capitol.tx.state.us or something like that. All I need is a unique identifier anyways. Email contact isn't that important.
I have a lot more data than this, specifically information on campaign contributions, committee hearing testimony and bill authors/sponsors.
The problem is that it's all in stored using different ad-hoc XML schema. I'm trying to consolidate it all using RDF, since there are so many tools available for working with it.
I had previously kept most of it in XML Topic Maps, but RDF has got more momentum behind it. Here's a comparison of RDF and Topic Maps. One particularly sticky problem for me is the lack of N-ary relationships in RDF. I'll figure something out.
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Austin-Related
Thursday, February 12, 2004
