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I've made a request that Metaweb take this over as part of the Freebase commons (and rationalize it with the duplicate Sunlight identifier that is in the /authority namespace).
If anyone has an opinion on whether/how this should be done, you can weigh in here https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/DA-912
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This work was completed at the end of September. There are now keys in the /authority namespace for the IDs (although the old keys still work too). Other duplicate keys were merged in, so everything is in a single namespace referenced by the following keys:
- /authority/us/gov/congress/bioguide
/authority/us/gov/loc/thomas_id
/base/uspolitician/thomas_id
- /user/jamie/sunlight/bioguide_id
- /authority/sunlight/bioguide_id
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I've added Judy Chu who was elected to the House of Representatives in July via special election. As far as I know the U.S. Politician base should be complete now with all members who are in the Congressional Biography database.
Another database/API which uses the same THOMAS identifiers is the New York Times Congressional API. Using Judy's ID of C001080 in a query, you can get all the info the Times has on her http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v2/us/legislative/congress/members/C001080.json?api-key=####
There's an interactive version that you can play with here and there's documentation on the API at http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/congress_api
The Times has some more detailed info like voting records as well as some stats that they compute based on raw data. Freebase has more general information and better non-political linkages.
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Also added late arrivals Michael Quigley and Scott Murphy. Hopefully that's the last of the missing ones.
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Added George LeMieux. Paul Kirk (Ted Kennedy's replacement) will be added when he's sworn in.
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Paul G. Kirk, Jr. was sworn in today. New ID = K000374 (although the text of his Wikipedia article hasn't caught up yet)
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