The document discusses open data and provides tips for working with open election data. It defines open data as data that anyone can freely use, modify, and share. It lists sources for open data portals at the local, regional, and European levels. Examples of using open data include a platform tracking parliamentary questions and a project creating a "sausage machine" for political information. The document encourages combining open data sources and provides links to election data from Belgium and the European Parliament.

1. Open Data
#hacktheelections
@Engagor
http://bit.ly/hacktheelections
JD Hancock

2. Agenda
● Open Data
● OKFN Belgium
● Where do you find it
● Use the structure
● Best practices & cases
● Fresh and old data
● Final tip

3. OPEN DATA
__ http://opendefinition.org/
The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data
and content.
It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open
content” and thereby ensures interoperability between different pools of open
material.
It can be summed up in the statement that:
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute
it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

4. OKFN Belgium
Open Knowledge Belgium is a not for profit organisation promoting open knowledge publication and
usage and is an umbrella organisation for Open Knowledge in Belgium.

6. http://data.gent.be/
http://www.kortrijk.be/opendata/data
http://opendata.antwerpen.be/
Where to find open data
Open Dataportals
http://data.opendataforum.info/
http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/
Local
Regional
European
http://data.gov.be/
Federal

7. http://www.verkiezingen.fgov.be/index.php?id=3292&L=1
USE the structure Luke
JD Hancock

8. Best practices
NosElus.be
Observatory platform for parliamentary questions asked by the elected officials in Walloon Parliament and in
the Chambre.
Dierentheater.be
Dieren Theater is a project to create a lachambre.be_to_json sausage machine (high grassroot level :) )
eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLm5SFLDAj0

9. Cases
Many-eyes.com: aimed at the development of
tools for data journalism, but has some open
API’s as well.
Some Flemish newspaper sites are publishing
the data behind datavisualisations.
http://www.demorgen.
be/dm/nl/17103/Verkiezingen/article/detail/1888
779/2014/05/16/N-VA-naar-35-procent-in-
Antwerpen-sp-a-tuimelt-diepte-in.dhtm

10. Fresh Data
EP opens up data on 25/5
XML Files
http://www.resultaten-verkiezingen2014.eu/nl/rss-flux.html
_ Voting Data 2009
_ Dummy Data 2014

11. Old data
Belgian elections XML data from 1848 tot 2004
http://www.ibzdgip.fgov.be/result/nl/main.html
And after 2004?
2007
http://verkiezingen2007.belgium.be/nl/
2009
http://verkiezingen2009.belgium.be/nl/ or http://www.elections.fgov.be/index.php?id=1148&L=1
2010
http://verkiezingen2010.belgium.be or http://www.elections.fgov.be/index.php?id=1655&L=1
No XML though, only PDF :’(

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13. Tip
Try to combine the output of the Engagor API with other data.
magic

14. Pieter-Jan Pauwels - @PJPauwels
Mathias Van Compernolle - @MVComper
What was that
link again?
http://bit.
ly/hacktheelecti
ons
JD Hancock