Northern Ireland Assembly Open Data

What is Open Data?

The Northern Ireland Assembly is opening up its data for other people to re-use

Transparency isn’t just about access, it is also about sharing and reuse

How can I access Open Data?

W3C documentation on Publishing Open Government Data states that:

The quickest and easiest way to make data available on the Internet is to publish the data in its raw form (e.g., an XML file)

The Northern Ireland Assembly has created a number of XML and JSON Web Services to provide easy and transparent access to their data:

• Members Web Service
  This service will provide lists of all current and historical MLA data, and all Assembly roles they carried out
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• Questions Web Service
  This service will provide lists of all questions (for oral and written answer) tabled by members since 2007, and where available, the respective answers
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• Organisations Web Service
  This service will provide lists of all organisations referenced by datasets, including Departments, Committees, Political Parties and All Party Groups
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• Plenary Web Service
  This service will provide lists of all plenary items tabled, details of plenary items, votes on division, division results and how members voted in divisions
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• Hansard Web Service
  This service will provide lists of all contributions by Members during plenary debate
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How can I use this data?

The data and information available through data.niassembly.gov.uk are available under terms described in the Open Government Licence.

You are free to:

• copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
• adapt the Information;
• exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.

You must, where you do any of the above:

• acknowledge the source of the information in your product or application by including the following attribution statement and, where possible, provide a link to this licence: Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

How can I contact you?

We are happy to answer any queries you may have about these services, listen to any ideas you may have for improvements or hear how you have implemented our data into your own systems.

We can be contacted by sending an email to data@niassembly.gov.uk or by following us on twitter at @niassembly_aims