[LINK] FW: TheyWorkForYou.com

[Chirgwin, Richard]

>and what's wrong with PDF anyhow?  there are converters out there ...

But how well do they work on the business of turning two column PDF into
contiguous text?

RC 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Lister
To: The Link Institute
Sent: 7/06/04 23:40
Subject: Re: [LINK] FW: TheyWorkForYou.com

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 20:35, Michael Still wrote:
> Eric Scheid wrote:
> 
> >>TheyWorkForYou.com is the finest example of a political hack I've
ever seen.
> >>It's basically an ultra-user-friendly front-end to the Hansard
public record
> >>of all speeches and debates in the houses of commons, with each MP
getting
> >>their own page complete with a summary of their recent performance
and
> >>member's interests and a list of their recently recorded
parliamentary
> >>appearances.
> 
> > damn handy hack :-)
> > sounds like an interesting project for some uni kids
> 
> Our parliamentary hansard appears to only be available as a set of PDF

> files, with two columns on the page to make it a little more exciting.

> Is anyone aware of a source of more machine readable hansard?

which hansard?  federal or one of the states?

NSW Hansard is quite readable:

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Parlment/HansArt.nsf/Members?openv
iew&restricttocategory=Hale,%20Ms%20Sylvia

i haven't checked federal or other states, this is just a result of
doing a website for a state MLC, but no probs.

and what's wrong with PDF anyhow?  there are converters out there ...

Tim Lister
South Sydney Greens
(02)9557 4050
timlister at webspinning.org
http://ssg.nsw.greens.org.au
"Think Globally, Act Locally"

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