End game?

[briatte]

Dear repo authors – @danilofreire @duarteguilherme and @RobertMyles,

May I ask what's the 'end game' for this repo?

Context: I've written a bunch of similar scrapers for Europe, and am thinking about writing similar scrapers for Latin America if it makes sense. My research topic is legislative collaboration, and bill co-sponsorships especially.

[RobertMyles]

Hi briatte. We're interested in legislative analysis, principally roll-call votes, and the repo is linked with that type of work. We're open to collaborations and suggestions, though, so if you have some ideas for working with the data from the package, we'd love to hear about them.

[duarteguilherme]

I'm really interested in participating in this type of project. For such endeavor, I think we should have an initial model in order to integrate all the scrapers. We had a hard time trying to integrate Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and Senate data. I believe, thus, a project for integrating other countries must be well designed and simple.

[briatte]

Thanks for the quick answers!

I'm planning to add vote scrapers to my repo this summer, although I'm more interested in non-roll-call forms of legislative information.

For such endeavor, I think we should have an initial model in order to integrate all the scrapers.

This is really hard. I've looked at 20+ countries, including several bicameral ones, and the model, if it exists, is elusive. I don't say much about this in my research note, but the appendix says a bit more.

I'll come back to you both when I get the time I need to start editing the scrapers again.

[RobertMyles]

Sure, then we can chat more about it and see what's possible.