Minnesota: Preserving State Government Digital Information: Sunlight Foundation’s NDIIPP Projects
Via the Minnesota Historical Society/ Minnesota State Archives:
The following report was written by the Sunlight Foundation to describe their involvement with the NDIIPP project.
From the Summary:
During the past year Sunlight Foundation has created two products serving the purpose of increasing public access to state legislative data: the Open Government website (OpenGovernment.org) and the Open States iOS app (to be publicly released Q1 2012). Both of these sites are powered by the Open States API, a data service that provides a common interface to state legislative data including bills, legislators, roll call votes, and committees.
Read the Complete Report (5 pages; PDF)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.