Campaign Finance API (US-centric)
The New York Times sponsors an API that accesses United States Federal Election Commission filings. Requires registration but is otherwise free. There are some limits on queries, etc.
I mention it because topic map applications that “tag” (in another sense of the word) candidates with particular contributions and legislation need to start sooner rather than later.
The 2012 election cycle (US), will be here sooner than you expect.
BTW, similar data sources for other countries would be good to bring to the attention of the topic mapping community.
OpenSecrets has a REST API as well. See http://www.opensecrets.org/action/apis.php
Comment by Billmon — December 1, 2010 @ 9:18 pm
Thanks for the pointer! I will create a blog entry about OpenSecrets.
Comment by Patrick Durusau — December 2, 2010 @ 5:28 am