Sunlight Labs

Basic information on members of Congress, legislator IDs used by various Web sites, and lookups between places and the politicians that represent them to facilitate mashups involving politicians and the various other APIs that are out there.

Programmatic access to the data that drives Capitol Words: daily updates of words used by Congress and lawmakers.

There's a lot of great information out there about politics — votes, lobbying records, campaign finance reports. Unfortunately, it's split across a dozen different Web sites and often hidden behind confusing interfaces. Watchdog.net is a Sunlight Foundation funded project that pulls all of that together and lets you ...

Votersdaily is an attempt to scrape the contents of government schedules and combine that event data into a single datastore. The intention is that this data can then be used to build web applications and mashups which will increase the level of transparency between government entities and the public on ...

Eureka is a web-based application that generates inventions. It is essentially a frontend for a Markov processor that analyzes US patent application abstracts and spits out random text based on word frequencies of the source material.

Data.gov provides weekly XML files of patent application bibliographic data. Bundled with Eureka ...

Legislative document repository.

A repository of combined government transparency data sets. Our initial release will combine state and federal campaign contribution data from NIMSP and CRP.

Looking at the various political data we have available to us, almost all data can be represented as transactional records between entities:

• A gave $2000 to X ...

Anthill is a suite of Django applications for running communities that are organized around events and projects. It is used to power http://sunlightlabs.com.

This is a robot made for Google Wave, that runs on Google App Engine. It watches a Wave for any mentions of bill codes or titles, and chimes in with a helpful summary and some links to different resources about it.

This robot could see significant expansion, especially in the ...

The Fifty State project aims to collect legislative data from all 50 state legislatures and make it available in a common, developer-friendly format.