Abstract
Council Data Project: Software for Municipal Data Collection, Analysis, and Publication
Highlights
Council Data Project (CDP) is a set of open-source tools that improve the accessibility of local government data by systematically collecting, transforming, and republishing this data to the web
The data re-published by CDP is packaged and presented within a searchable web application that vastly simplifies the process of finding specific information within the archived data
Council Data Project consists of three primary tools: 1. cookiecutter-cdp-deployment: A Python cookiecutter (Greenfeld et al, 2015) template to assist users in fully deploying a new CDP instance
Summary
Counties, and states throughout the USA are bound by law to archive recordings of public meetings. Most local governments comply with these laws by posting documents, audio, or video recordings online. The data re-published by CDP is packaged and presented within a searchable web application that vastly simplifies the process of finding specific information within the archived data. We envision this project being used by a variety of groups including civic technologists hoping to promote government transparency, researchers focused on public policy, natural language processing, machine learning, or information retrieval and discovery, and many others
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