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mysociety / yournextrepresentative

A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/
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Include sources in CSV #950

Open wfdd opened 8 years ago

wfdd commented 8 years ago

The sources are important when importing the candidates into another database, so we might wanna include them in the CSV output.

mhl commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure quite how we would do this; obviously multiple sources (one per edit) are linked to a person and they often won't make sense without the associated change derived from the versions array.

My feeling is that for importing the candidates into another database you'd want to use the API, as candidates_import_from_live_site does.

wfdd commented 8 years ago

Well, I was thinking it can be treated as a bibliography - that's probably better than nothing, right? The two major issues I see are: the sources field being used for things other than sources, as is often the case; and identifying changes that negate a previous change.