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title: >-
  Council Data Project: Software for Municipal Data
  Collection, Analysis, and Publication
message: Please cite this software using these metadata.
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Eva Maxfield
    family-names: Brown
    email: jmxbrown@uw.edu
    affiliation: >-
      University of Washington Information School,
      University of Washington, Seattle
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-0373'
  - given-names: To
    family-names: Huynh
    affiliation: 'University of Washington, Seattle'
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9664-3662'
  - given-names: Isaac
    family-names: Na
    affiliation: 'Washington University, St. Louis'
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0182-1615'
  - given-names: Brian
    family-names: Ledbetter
    affiliation: >-
      University of Washington Information School,
      University of Washington, Seattle
  - given-names: Hawk
    family-names: Ticehurst
    affiliation: >-
      University of Washington Information School,
      University of Washington, Seattle
  - given-names: Sarah
    family-names: Liu
  - given-names: Emily
    family-names: Gilles
  - given-names: Katlyn M. F.
    family-names: Greene
  - given-names: Sung
    family-names: Cho
  - given-names: Shak
    family-names: Ragoler
  - given-names: Nicholas
    family-names: Weber
    email: nmweber@uw.edu
    affiliation: >-
      University of Washington Information School,
      University of Washington, Seattle
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-3763'
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.21105/joss.03904
  - type: url
    value: 'https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03904'
repository-code: >-
  https://github.com/CouncilDataProject/cookiecutter-cdp-deployment
url: 'https://councildataproject.org'
abstract: >-
  Cities, counties, and states throughout the USA are
  bound by law to archive recordings of public
  meetings. Most local governments comply with these
  laws by posting documents, audio, or video
  recordings online. As there is no set standard for
  municipal data archives however, parsing and
  processing such data is typically time consuming
  and highly dependent on each municipality. Council
  Data Project (CDP) is a set of open-source tools
  that improve the accessibility of local government
  data by systematically collecting, transforming,
  and re-publishing this data to the web. The data
  re-published by CDP is packaged and presented
  within a searchable web application that vastly
  simplifies the process of finding specific
  information within the archived data. We envision
  this project being used by a variety of groups
  including civic technologists hoping to promote
  government transparency, researchers focused on
  public policy, natural language processing, machine
  learning, or information retrieval and discovery,
  and many others.
keywords:
  - public interest technology
  - open government
  - open data
  - data archival
  - municipal governance
  - Python
  - JavaScript
  - natural language processing
license: MIT
commit: 59c30846b40c289b1a8b6ab10b0b46b5bdfc3c59
version: 3.0.0
date-released: '2021-12-02'