All posts in the topic Vote for what to make digital next (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Don Christie at Jul 06 10:03 NZST
Not sure if this has already been on the list: Digital NZ launch Make It Digital last week http://makeit.digitalnz.org/ IT includes a section where public propose and vote on collections they'd like to see make digital (and it seems implied they want it open as well) http://makeit.digitalnz.org/voting Top of the voting at the moment is: Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHRS) Electoral Rolls School Journal Lyttelton Times, 1851-1929 The Press (Christchurch, 1861- ) Stones Directories, 1884-1955 The New Zealand Herald, 1863- Many of these are private publications, but outside the 50 year copyright monopoly.
I saw this one...
> Electoral Rolls
There are huge privacy issues around the electoral role. Sometimes the
crowds can be wrong...
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:48 PM, <email obscured>> wrote:
> I saw this one...
>
>> Electoral Rolls
>
> There are huge privacy issues around the electoral role. Sometimes the
> crowds can be wrong...
The electoral roll from 100 years ago would be useful for researchers
- without the privacy woes.
Electoral roles are only an issue for living persons aren't they? That
would mean linking first to births, deaths and marriages to first
match identities, and then determine which ones are dead and could be
published.
Cheers Gav
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Gavin Treadgold <email obscured>> wrote:
> Electoral roles are only an issue for living persons aren't they? That
> would mean linking first to births, deaths and marriages to first
> match identities, and then determine which ones are dead and could be
> published.
>
An interesting privacy policy question, that I'm not aware has been
decided.
Privacy is still a relatively new concept and is evolving. Does your right
to privacy cease after you die? How soon after death can we access your
official records?
Archives NZ recently started publishing old army medical records. So will we
see a day when our demand for open data includes health records so we can do
personal genetic research e.g. www.*mydaughtersdna*.org/
Print copies of the electoral roll are available for viewing at Registrar of Electors offices and public libraries. Full electoral rolls are not available online. http://www.elections.org.nz/enrolment/viewing-printed-rolls.html
Electoral rolls are already used for survey sampling and similar activities.
Being online would just be easier (i.e. print is slowing down the spammers)
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 09:15 +1200, <email obscured> wrote: > Print copies of the electoral roll are available for viewing at > Registrar of Electors offices and public libraries. Full electoral > rolls are not available online. > > http://www.elections.org.nz/enrolment/viewing-printed-rolls.html All of this is controlled by legislation. EEC *have* to comply very strictly with the law. Political parties *are* allowed electronic copies of the roll are not allowed to pass them onto 3rd parties (IANAL so check the rules before quoting me).