The Library of Congress held a virtual public forum on Congress.gov on September 21, 2022. We summaries the efforts by the Library and its data partner to improve public access to congressional legislative data.
Continue reading... September 13, 2022
Save the Dates: Congressional Data Task Force Meetings Set for End of 2022
The Congressional Data Task Force announced the dates of its third and fourth quarter public meetings. The CDTF will hold its Q3 public meeting from 2-4pm ET on Thursday September 29. In the future, you can follow this link to register online. The CDTF will hold its Q4 public meeting from 2-4 PM ET on […]
Continue reading... September 8, 2022
Library of Congress Launches Congress.gov API
On September 6th, the Library of Congress announced it launched a beta version of its Congress.gov API. While APIs for legislative data aren’t new for the Legislative branch — see, for example, the Government Publishing Office’s API — this is a pretty big deal. For the reason why, it’s helpful to know a little history.
Continue reading... August 24, 2022
Library of Congress announces date for Virtual Public Forum on Congress.gov
The Library of Congress announced it will hold its third virtual public forum on congress.gov on September 21, 2022 from 1:30-4:30 PM ET. The forum will focus on user suggestions for enhanced access to congressional information/data on congress.gov and also provide an opportunity for the Library to provide updates on improvements to that website. Pursuant […]
Continue reading... July 19, 2022
Building Digital Capacity in Congress: Recommendations for the House Digital Service
Click here to download a PDF version of the paper. Despite many reforms over time, Congress has struggled to keep up with the pace of technological change and the new burdens it has brought. In particular, because of its distributed governance, legislative branch IT operations must contend with a greater number of coordination problems, inefficiencies, and vectors […]
Continue reading... June 22, 2022
The Congressional Data Task Force Continues Efforts to Modernize Congressional Tech, Including Itself
The Congressional Data Task Force announced significant legislative branch technology modernization efforts at their second quarter meeting on June 21, 2022, starting with a name change from the Bulk Data Task Force in recognition of the expanded scope of the working group as it goes into its second decade of existence. We have a full […]
Continue reading... June 8, 2022
Bulk Data Task Force Meeting Set for June 21, 2022
The Congressional Bulk Data Task force announced its upcoming quarterly meeting with take place on Tuesday, June 21, from 2-4 p.m. To join the meeting, register on its webpage. On the agenda: Welcome and Background (Meeting starts at 2:01/2:02) Reports/Presentations/Updates from civil society organizations Reports/Presentations/Updates from our Legislative Branch organizations: LOC, GPO, House Clerk, House […]
Continue reading... May 16, 2022
Advisory Committee on Records of Congress Sets Meeting for June 10, 2022
The Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress has announced its semi-annual meeting on June 10th, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 pm ET. To attend the meeting, you must RSVP to archives@mail.house.gov by June 3rd. More details about the ACRC meeting are here.
Continue reading... April 8, 2022
Congressional Hackathon 4.0
On Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, Congress held the Fourth Congressional Hackathon, co-hosted by Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Leader McCarthy. This blogpost is a stub to gather information from the hackathon. We will update it when we have some time. The format of the hackathon was:
Continue reading... March 22, 2022
Project ideas for the Congressional Hackathon
The fourth Congressional Hackathon will be held on April 6th, and in advance of the proceedings we’ve updated our list of project ideas and resources for the hackathon. The information is published as a Google document, so please feel encouraged to add your own ideas or add content to existing ones. The ideas, including a […]
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