Civic hacking the Federal Register

(This post is part of an ongoing series documenting adventures in father-son civic hacking.)

README

We built a listing of executive branch agencies and individual agency pages using the Federal Register API. This includes agency pages with:

• Agency logo, description and website
• Subagencies within the agency
• Recent agency Federal Register documents

Data

Data used for this project:

• Federal Register API (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

Issues

Issues we found using the API:

• Agency logos are poor quality.
• Agency data (about, website) is inconsistent, needs copyediting or is empty.

Kudos

Big kudos to the National Archives for:

• Maintaining a public repository of the data.

Demo

Executive agencies:

Example agency:

Feedback

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