[CivicAccess-discuss] Machine Readable Federal Budget?

[David Eaves]

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On 11-05-20 2:44 PM, Kent Mewhort wrote:
> Jonathan, I tried to get this information a few months back, but had 
> no success.  I first asked the Department of Finance for budget data, 
> but, after a two month wait, was simply told:
>
> >The budget documents are only available in PDF and HTML formats, and 
> can be found on the budget website at www.budget.gc.ca 
> <http://www.budget.gc.ca>.  Thank you for writing.
>
> I then turned my head towards expenditure data from Public Accounts 
> (specifically, I asked for the raw data in "Public Accounts of Canada 
> 2010 - Volume II - Details of Expenses and Revenues").  The folks at 
> this department were responsive and seemed quite willing to provide 
> the data if they easily could -- but unfortunately could not:
>
> >The production of the Public Accounts involves a lengthy process of 
> gathering financial information from all departments and agencies, 
> often in various formats. This information is then analysed, tagged 
> and loaded in style sheets through the use of a utility program for 
> publication using Ventura desktop publishing. Volumes thus produced 
> contain such large and complex files that it is only practicable for 
> us to offer them in two formats, i.e. PDF (Adobe Portable Document 
> Format) and the printed format which is tabled in the House of Commons 
> each year.
>
> This is definitely something to ask for in the federal portal, now 
> that it's up and running!
>
> Kent
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:05 PM, James McKinney 
> <oxford.tuxedo at gmail.com <mailto:oxford.tuxedo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     There's been some interest in this in the OpenHamilton group
>     http://groups.google.com/group/openhamilton/browse_thread/thread/47d0955e5d880785
>
>     No report of even a non-machine readable version of the federal
>     budget. I haven't looked for it yet, though.
>
>     On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Jonathan Brun
>     <jbrun at jonathanbrun.com <mailto:jbrun at jonathanbrun.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     > Is there a machine readable version of the Federal Budget
>     available? If not,
>     > does anyone know anyone who would be interested in generating it.
>     > Thanks,
>     > JB
>     > MontrealOuvert.net
>     > jonathanbrun.com <http://jonathanbrun.com>
>     >
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