Video and Other Resources Available for House Legislative Data and Transparency Conference

Video is now available for the House Legislative Data and Transparency Conference, held 2 February 2012, in Washington, DC. The conference was hosted by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on House Administration.

Click here for slides from some of the presentations (scroll down).

The Twitter hashtag for the conference was #ldtc.

Presentations concerned metadata and dissemination standards and practices for U.S. federal legislative data, including open government data standards, XML markup, integrating multimedia resources into legislative data, and standards for evaluating the transparency of U.S. federal legislative data.

Speakers included Daniel Bennett of the e-Citizen Foundation, Tom Bruce of the Legal Information Institute, Daniel Schuman and Eric Mill of the Sunlight Foundation, Jim Harper of the Cato Institute, Joshua Tauberer of POPVOX and GovTrack, and Derek Willis of the New York Times.

Here are links to selected posts about the conference:

• Jim Harper, Helping the House Advance Data Transparency
• Ari Hershowitz, Roundup: House Legislative Data and Transparency
• David Moore, Liberate OpenGovData Now
• Daniel Schuman, Benchmarks for Measuring Success for Legislative Transparency
• Joshua Tauberer, Data Impact and Understandability (click here for slides)
• Derek Willis, On Legislative Data Transparency
• John Wonderlich, Bulk Data at the House Legislative Data Conference

If you know of other posts or resources about the conference, please feel free to mention them in the comments.

{NOTE: Updated 11 February 2012 to add link to Joshua Tauberer’s presentation.]

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