E-Business Library > GovTracker: Getting Rhode Island Data
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[Phil Windley's Technometria] If you live in Rhode Island and want information on Board/Commission Memberships, Corporations, Elections, Lobbyist Registration, Rules and Regulations, or State Directories, you’re in luck. The Rhode Island Secretary of State’s office has just released GovTracker, a tool for getting any or all of this data as an RSS feed.
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Jeff Barr's Blog: Anyone with a large collection of geographically indexed data should think about creating a Network Link for it. Imagine, for example, linking this to the Rhode Island GovTracker service that I mentioned yesterday. (via Cosmos)
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Jeff Barr's Blog: They are all REST-style interfaces, with an RSS option (actually, RSS is the default and a richer XML schema is an option). Access to Board/Commission Membership, Corporations, Elections, Lobbyist Registration, Rules and Regulations, and the State Directory is provided, using a consistent entity model complete with parent-child relationships. (via Cosmos)
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[Govtech.net] Rhode Island Launches Govtracker Web Services - Government Technology: Later on he says, "It is simply unacceptable at this point in history that a citizen can use web services to track the movies he is renting, the weather around his house, and the books he's recently purchased but cannot as easily monitor data regarding the quality of his drinking water, legislation or regulations that will directly impact his work or personal life, what contracts are currently available to bid on for his state, or what crimes have recently occurred on his street."
[Gocc.gov] Rhode Island Govtracker Services ” Government Open Code Collaborative: As a step towards resolving this dissonance, the Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of the State has released GovTracker Services to provide RESTful access to public information. We hope that this set of web services is adopted by the developer community and is a step towards an era of community-developed applications that make it as easy for citizens to interact with their government as it is for them to interact with the rest of the networked world.
[Freegovinfo.info] blogs | Free Government Information: It is the goal of the RI Data Share Committee to make Rhode Island a national showcase for the utilization of data sharing technologies in government that will offer citizens, businesses and state and local governments a more efficient and cost-effective way to share and exchange information via the Internet
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