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Add descriptor(s) for constituency types (boring names) #4

Open stepps00 opened 7 years ago

stepps00 commented 7 years ago

Constituency records currently have a wof:association property, which (for US records) is either a value of us-senate or us-house. We need to add additional information to distinguish between the "type" or constituency and the "era" that constituency represented.

Current property:

Proposed properties:

In addition, each wof:association value should get have a markdown file, similar to what we do in the sources repo, with additional information about that association.

Additional proposed files:

nvkelso commented 7 years ago

Should the 115th congress have it’s own WOF record, including inception and cessation dates?

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Stephen Epps notifications@github.com wrote:

Constituency records currently have a wof:association property, which (for US records) is either a value of us-senate or us-house. We need to add additional information to distringuish between the "type" or constituency and the "era" that constituency represented.

Current property:

  • "wof:association":"us-house”,

Proposed properties:

  • "wof:association_type”:”unicameral/upper/lower”,
  • "wof:association_era”:”115th congress”,

In addition, each wof:association value should get have a markdown file, similar to what we do in the sources repo, with additional information about that association.

Additional proposed files:

  • Markdown file for each association with a description of that association group.

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stepps00 commented 7 years ago

That would make any redistricting changes much easier when it comes time to do the superseding/supersedes dance, so I would suggest we add a single record of "115th Congress" below the record for the United States.

Plus, the 115th Congress is separate and distinct from the 114th and 116th Congresses, which seems like it would warrant a separate record.