[Data-modeling] indian elections

Sat Apr 11 01:38:08 UTC 2009

oh, wow, wisevoter looks excellent!

We committed to using Freebase for a number of reasons, but in my  
understanding we need a middle layer since we are dealing with a lot  
of data that should not be published into Freebase. I wonder what the  
best approach is given our scope: Acre, something talking through a  
ruby API, or some combo hack with semantic mediawiki? We definitely  
want to help curate that data set, and get as much as we can into  
Freebase. I wonder what problems to expect with the combination.  
Presumably all your data is open licensed?

I will move those questions to the developer list.

As far as data modeling is concerned, I would love to know what your  
approach has been thus far, and any problems you have encountered.

best
c

Chris
http://votereport.in core team member
http://swiftapp.org lead interaction designer

On Apr 10, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Vaibhav Bhandari wrote:

> hi Chris -
>
> Sorry to hijack the freebase thread. I used Semantic Mediawiki  
> (sorry freebase :)) to build something like this and we built it for  
> Indian Elections - http://www.wisevoter.org. The idea is to have it  
> as a database of all politicians and very soon we will add causes.  
> However our data models seems orthogonal but it will be great to  
> synergize.
>
> I have been talking to Selvam, but it will be great if we can  
> connect. You can reach me at 408.458.0541 or vaibhavb at gmail.com.
>
> regards,
> Vaibhav
> http://www.wisevoter.org
>
> What is WiseVoter?
> WiseVoter is a free demopedia where people can collaboratively keep  
> track of politicians. Most of the data associated with a politican's  
> profile can be edited via a form (look for "edit with form") link.  
> The data comprises elements like Networth, Criminal Record,  
> Education etc. This enables to write a lot of analytical tools which  
> give people a way to know various facts about their politicians  
> (look for “WiseVoter Politician Facts”.
>
> How is WiseVoter different?
> Currently WiseVoter has the most comprehensive data of politicians  
> contesting in the Indian Lok Sabha elections 2009. The data is  
> spidered using Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha websites, NoCriminal.org and  
> various other internet resource. Most other wesbites don’t have this  
> comprehensive data, and we aim to keep adding new data each day.  
> However what sets us apart is that we are allowing this data to be  
> editable by any one, in Wikipedia style. We aim to be around and  
> serve this database for more than one election.
>
> WiseVoter is of the people, by the people and for the people in the  
> true sense!
>
> Why Now?
> This release of WiseVoter is targeting India Lok Sabha 2009  
> elections. A profile of a politician can be marked with appropriate  
> candidature field and this information could be used by State or  
> City elections as well!
>
> How can I help?
> Please help us -
> Add more politicians to the demopedia! - Its simple just click add  
> politician in left column and fill the forms.
> Keep information of the current politician up to date. Just click on  
> the "edit with form" link on top of each profile and change any  
> discrepancies you see!
> Spread the word - use our badge in your blog, website, facebook - http://www.wisevoter.org/wiki/SpreadTheWord
> Give us feedback and discuss the information on the website using  
> the bottom bar!!
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Praveen Paritosh  
> <paritosh at metaweb.com> wrote:
> ----- "Chris Blow" <cblow at meedan.net> wrote:
>
> | Hello,
> |
> | I am working on a project that seeks to organize information about  
> the
> |
> | upcoming Indian Elections.
> |
> | http://votereport.in/blog/about/
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> What is the scale of this data -- how many people, places and  
> organizations? I see that the ECI website provides some of this data  
> on their website. Is there a better format than scraping html pages  
> for the data. Are there other sources?
>
> Also, I am curious about the notion of "incident". Is this an  
> official "ticket" given by government officials, or is it a report  
> that is backed by a news article?
>
> Thanks,
> Praveen.
>
>
> |
> | Currently we have cobbled together an astonishingly basic list of
> | people and places
> | http://votereportindia.pbwiki.com/Design%C2%A0Inputs
> |
> | And, for event-based data, we want to classify according to the
> | Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct:
> |
> | 1. Hate speech in campaigning
> | 2. Inter party violence
> | 3. Misuse of official means
> | 4. Intimidation of voters/ officials
> | 5. Violence against voters/ officials
> | 6. Bribing of voters/ officials
> | 7. Impersonation of voters
> | 8. Voter list discrepancies
> | 9. Broken Electronic Voting Machines
> | 10. Polling booth capturing
> | (drawn from: http://eci.nic.in/faq/faq_mcc.pdf)
> |
> |
> |
> | Thus we hope to capture
> |
> | People
> | - election related officials
> | - candidates
> | - prominent endorsers
> |
> | Places
> | - cities and towns
> | - polling locations
> | - locations of violations of the ECMCC as per above
> |
> | Events
> | - violations of the ECMCC as per above
> |
> | Organizations
> | - Parties
> | - Media outlets
> | - Any endorsing organizations
> |
> |
> | I have been recommending that we use Freebase to structure some of  
> our
> |
> | data. Can anyone give any advice about their experience modeling
> | elections?
> |
> |
> | Thanks!
> |
> | Chris
> |
> |
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