Jim,
Thanks for sharing the blogpost. If you're working on something like this,
we should talk.
Raymond Yee took a stab at this a few years back:
http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/06/18/a-first-pass-at-an-org-chart-for-the-us-federal-government/
A federal org chart is valuable and the ~38,000 jurisdictions below the
federal level form an excellent structure for hyperlocal data. A citizen's
government changes based on location, and having a machine-readable
structure would create some very interesting possibilities.
The DemocracyMap <http://democracymap.org> project has done some
exploratory work on this as well.
- Ryan Wold
@cc the DemocracyMap list
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Jim Harper <<email obscured>> wrote:
> If the Congress were going to refer to agencies, bureaus, and programs in
> a standardized, machine-readable way, there would need to be reliable,
> stable, unique idenfiers for these things.
>
> You can cobble together identifiers from various sources and try to
> cross-walk them, but your basic lookup table reflecting the organization of
> the executive branch doesn't exist.
>
> Highlighted in this blog post:
>
>
>
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/theres-no-machine-readable-government-org-chart/
Thanks for sharing the blogpost. If you're working on something like this,
we should talk.
Raymond Yee took a stab at this a few years back:
http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/06/18/a-first-pass-at-an-org-chart-for-the-us-federal-government/
A federal org chart is valuable and the ~38,000 jurisdictions below the
federal level form an excellent structure for hyperlocal data. A citizen's
government changes based on location, and having a machine-readable
structure would create some very interesting possibilities.
The DemocracyMap <http://democracymap.org> project has done some
exploratory work on this as well.
- Ryan Wold
@cc the DemocracyMap list
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Jim Harper <<email obscured>> wrote:
> If the Congress were going to refer to agencies, bureaus, and programs in
> a standardized, machine-readable way, there would need to be reliable,
> stable, unique idenfiers for these things.
>
> You can cobble together identifiers from various sources and try to
> cross-walk them, but your basic lookup table reflecting the organization of
> the executive branch doesn't exist.
>
> Highlighted in this blog post:
>
>
>
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/theres-no-machine-readable-government-org-chart/
