Committees fields

Fields that are candidates for elimination are given in bold.

Fields on all documents

• _id: the committee ID in the format AKC000001 where AK is the uppercase jurisdiction ID
• _all_ids: all IDs of merged documents plus this document's _id
• _type: always committee
• members
• Hierarchy
  • parent_id: the parent committee ID
  • state: the jurisdiction ID, e.g. ak
  • chamber: lower, upper or joint
  • committee: the name of the committee
  • subcommittee: the name of the subcommittee
• URLs
  • sources
  • sources.url
• Metadata
  • created_at
  • updated_at

Fields on more than 97% of documents

• Members
  • members.leg_id: the legislator ID
  • members.role: e.g. chair, co-chair, vice-chair, etc. suggested cleanup
  • members.name: the legislator's name

Fields on about 54% of documents

• Hierarchy
  • country: always us
  • level: always state

Fields on less than 6% of documents

• +comm_type: type of committee (comm_type more rarely)
• +description
• +session
• +short_name
• +status
• Members
  • members._guid
  • members._code
  • members.+chamber
• Calendar
  • +meetings_info
  • +office_hours
• Contact
  • +aide (aide more rarely)
  • +contact_info (contact_info more rarely)
  • +office_phone
  • +secretary
  • +twitter
• Crosswalk IDs
  • votesmart_id
• Codes
  • +action_code
  • +code
  • +az_committee_id
• Internal?
  • _code
  • _guid