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Table of popular nicknames and keywords for bills, curated manually.
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Yamlize and add other fields? #6

Closed JoshData closed 11 years ago

JoshData commented 11 years ago

At GovTrack we're trying out writing some of our own short (micro) bill descriptions. We're also collecting some external links to more info, typically authoritative info.

I didn't have a good place to put it, so I thought it might fit in here. Here's what that might look like.

What do you think?

My conversion to YAML was slightly lossy: the association between terms and comments is lost.

I don't have strong feelings here. If you don't think either YAMLizing or including the additional info is a good fit here, no worries.

konklone commented 11 years ago

I'm very interested in having this data here. These summaries and links are super useful. I'm a little wary of YAML after all the little maintenance issues in congress-legislators, and the lesser public familiarity with the format compared to CSV or JSON.

What do you think of doing this as three individual CSV files - one of nicknames, and one of summaries, and one of links. FWIW, nicknames are added very rarely, and even if they had more eyes on the problem, they'll still grow much more slowly and for different reasons than bill summaries and links would.

JoshData commented 11 years ago

Sounds good. I'm only going to do the summaries for now, then, since I'm not sure about the data model. (i.e. I don't have titles for links) Might want to return to that later. Want me to do another pull req, or just commit the csv?

konklone commented 11 years ago

You can just go ahead and commit the CSV. And thanks!

konklone commented 11 years ago

Still interested in committing the CSV?

JoshData commented 11 years ago

I ran into a problem in keeping the data in sync... The summaries are being written by my comms guy Avi, and I'm not sure I want to bother him with setting up git so he can add here directly. So not sure what to do.

konklone commented 11 years ago

It's not started up in earnest yet, but this is the same issue I'm tackling in the glossary repo. I'm keeping definitions in paragraph form, easily editable in the browser either on GitHub or Prose.io, and then do the transform to CSV and upload post-push. So that's one approach. On Jul 9, 2013 8:28 AM, "Joshua Tauberer" notifications@github.com wrote:

I ran into a problem in keeping the data in sync... The summaries are being written by my comms guy Avi, and I'm not sure I want to bother him with setting up git so he can add here directly. So not sure what to do.

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