fgregg
commented
1 year ago taking some notes here:
general
- string values often have trailing white space
events
- in the agenda items, there is no flag that indicates whether an item has votes associated with it, this means i have to check a separate url for every agenda item. the API should offer a flag.
- the location field of events is being used to capture the status of events (i.e. cancelled) this should be moved to separate field
- the videoLink attribute sometimes has more than one item, this should be an array not a whitespace delimited string.
- location is sometimes an empty string. it probably shouldn't be
- the transcriptLink is always a empty string. should be dropped.
- would be helpful if location was a a controlled vocabulary
people
- address, phone, ... are ward office, address2, phone2, ... are city hall office. these should have better names
- missing who the chair and vice chairs of committees are!
- at most only one website is every listed, can't drop site2
bills
- Voice votes are not easy to identify
- Results of votes are not easy to identify
- In actions, the actionByName is wrong when it's a referral. it's giving the name of the recipeint of the referral not the referrer. should add another field.
- Would be good to actually capture motions not just actions
- would be good to indicate the nature of the relation for related bills
- sometime matter title and record number are missing, probably shouldn't be.
- sometimes an actionName in an action is an emptry string,
- sometimes the date of an action is missing
- matterCategory should be an array not a pipe delimited string
- Many matters say they are related to "CL2012-149" but are clearly not
stevevance
derekeder
The Chicago City Clerk is launching a new legislative management system to replace Legistar: https://chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/
Some time later today (June 16), the chicago.legistar.com/ will no longer work and we will need to update our scrapers to pull data from the new API. Documentation is here: https://api.chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/
I've been told the new system will have all the same data as the old one. As of this writing, data is updated through June 2, 2023.