Iain Watt
David Morrison
Robert McWilliam
Pulling in FOI responses from various public body's disclosure logs so they can be searched and analysed.
Iain Learmonth (and some others) worked on this at the last code the city and produced scrapers to get the high level data from Aberdeen City Council and East Lothian Council. That work is at https://github.com/irl/foiawiki
To take this forward we wanted to get the scrapers live again, add something to get the text out of the actual response documents and look at putting in an interface to search/look at the data.
We've got a name for the project that isn't wrong (this is not a wiki).
The scrapers from the last code the city have been resuscitated and cleaned up a bit.
There is a website to look at/search the scraped data: http://tinfoil.bodaegl.com
We've got an OCR service that if given the URL of a PDF will respond with the text that's in it.
Sate of play on Friday: http://watty62.co.uk/2014/10/a-scotland-wide-foi-search-facility/ [updated 2023!]
Code from last time: https://github.com/irl/foiawiki
Some more code Iain worked on in advance of this time: https://github.com/CodeTheCity/foiawiki2
Code from this time: https://github.com/ormiret/tinfoil-hat
Running version: http://tinfoil.bodaegl.com