Access Missouri : Final Report

Abstract

Final report of the 2013/2014 IIF project, "Access Missouri." Original project goals: To create a partnership for the project between students and staff at KBIA, MDN, the University of Missouri Informatics Institute, the Truman School of Public Affairs, the MU Department of Political Science ; Create a user-friendly interface for journalists and the general public to access and interact with information about the Missouri state government in completely new ways ; Create an application to scrape data from the state legislature's .pdf daily legislative journals and crawl selected public websites where data is displayed in html format ; Identify other state government data worthy of preservation and analysis to be captured and incorporated into the database.