scripts/datasources/README.md

Data Source Scripts

This directory contains scripts organized by external data source.

Structure

Each subdirectory contains scripts for a specific data source:

• openstates/ - OpenStates legislative data (bills, legislators, votes)
• census/ - US Census Bureau geographic and demographic data
• irs/ - IRS nonprofit data (Form 990, Business Master File)
• nccs/ - National Center for Charitable Statistics unified nonprofit data
• fec/ - Federal Election Commission campaign finance data
• ballotpedia/ - Ballotpedia election and official data
• google_civic/ - Google Civic Information API
• grants_gov/ - Grants.gov federal grant data
• localview/ - LocalView meeting transcripts and agendas
• meetingbank/ - MeetingBank research dataset
• nces/ - National Center for Education Statistics
• wikidata/ - Wikidata structured knowledge base
• dbpedia/ - DBpedia structured Wikipedia data
• voter_data/ - Voter registration and turnout data

Usage

Each subdirectory may contain:

• Ingestion/download scripts
• Schema creation scripts
• Export/transformation scripts
• README with data source details