This repository contains YAML files with all the information on given individuals, as well as scripts to work with & maintain the data.
docker-compose run --rm --entrypoint scripts/run_tests.sh people
A lot of inspiration was taken from the congress-legislators project that has been maintaining this data for the United States Congress.
Historically Open States has scraped this data, but given the relatively infrequent changes and the manual labor required to retire & merge legislators- we have decided to move in this direction in the hopes of improving the data and making it more accessible for contributors.
Also, please note that this portion of the project is in the public domain in the United States with all copyright waived via a CC0 dedication. By contributing you agree to waive all copyright claims.