Facilitate Access to CDP Data

[nniiicc]

Idea / Feature

Support programmatic use of CDP data

Use Case / User Story

• I am a political scientist. I want to query a CDP API so that I can obtain all transcripts from city councils in the USA where the phrase "critical race theory" appears.
• I am a political scientist. I want to query a CDP interface so that I can obtain all transcripts from city councils in the USA where the phrase "critical race theory" appears. I want the interface to allow me to select criteria like a a date range, enter a keywords, choose the format of delivery etc.

Solution

• A documented restfulAPI with examples how to query within and across CDP instances
• A GUI that allows a user to assemble and download a dataset

Alternatives

• Pre-packaging / releasing CDP data at regular intervals. We could just say here is a giant tarball of all transcripts as a first step, but ultimately this is a poor solution to encouraging more programmatic use of CDP data.

Stakeholders

My use cases are for research - but it could be useful to lots of people from lots of different backgrounds (computational journalism, advocacy group, etc) that want to use CDP data

Major Components

Dependencies

Other Notes

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[evamaxfield]

Going to move some of the ideas in this issue over to #3

Some nice additions here