Video and notes from yesterday's session with @phildini talking about https://civic.band/ - his project to gather minutes and agendas from 100+ US local governments and make them searchable using @datasette https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/16/civic-band/
@simon @phildini @datasette Bookmarked to watch later! I'm scraping my city's agendas and minutes now and making them full-text searchable using R and the R data.table package in an R Shiny app. Someday I may move to more robust infrastructure and maybe look at adding embeddings and natural-language queries.
https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/framingham_meetings/