Open Voices

A collection of projects to improve parliament.nz as an entry for GovHackNZ 2017.

• converting list of MPs into popolo.json
• ingest MPs popolo.json into SayIt.
• run an NZ SayIt instance.
• Scrape Hansard debate transcript HTML and transform it to Akoma Ntoso XML.
• Ingest Akoma Ntoso debate transcript XML into SayIt.
• Provide a REST API for other services (API root at: /api/v0.1/).
• (Repository was "A simple node.js script to scrape data about Ministers of Parliament (MPs) from parliament.nz and return it as JSON.")

Team

• Agnetha
• Kevin
• David
• Jonathan

https://2017.hackerspace.govhack.org/project/open-voices

Notes

• Terms of Parliament https://raw.githubusercontent.com/everypolitician/everypolitician-data/master/data/New_Zealand/House/sources/manual/terms.csv
• "51st New Zealand Parliament" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4640115

References

• http://sayit.mysociety.org/
• http://www.akomantoso.org/
• http://www.popoloproject.com/
• Icons Creative Commons BY 3.0 from and Madebyoliver and Gregor Cresnar on (www.flaticon.com).