Missing Members Data Roles

[elynch303]

I would like to add some more data endpoints such as the members roles, Committees, Parliamentary Associations and Interparliamentary Groups

roles = string array

[
   "Prime Minister",
   "Leader of the Liberal Party"
]

committees = string array

[
   "Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying",
   "Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure of the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying"
]

Parliamentary Associations = string array

[
"Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association",
"Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association",
"Canadian Branch of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie",
"Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association",
"Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group",
"Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association",
"Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly",
]

this data dose appear to be available for most federal and provincial members as you can see here

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/ziad-aboultaif(89156) https://nslegislature.ca/members/profiles/john-white https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/jill-andrew

[jpmckinney]

You can put these additional fields as extras on the person in https://github.com/opencivicdata/scrapers-ca

For example:

https://github.com/opencivicdata/scrapers-ca/blob/42a4433f815282b62161aea9a3a8b6ff575a177f/ca_on/people.py#L59

[jpmckinney]

For Canada, you should use the OpenParliament API for committees.

To my knowledge, there are no APIs for the provinces, so they can be modelled as extras, though really these things are not properties of a person, but are their own classes (but, we don't intend to expand the scope of Represent).

[elynch303]

committees and associations may not be as much a property of a person but i would argue in this case that roles make sense have as a top level endpoint similar to offices. if we are unable to update the scope at this time then putting them in extras would be fine at this time.

[jpmckinney]

Yes, let’s use extras.

[elynch303]

i will separate the work for roles, committees and associations into separate PR's. and i will not duplicate data that can be grabbed from OpenParliament

[jpmckinney]

Closed by https://github.com/opencivicdata/scrapers-ca/pull/319