The goal of this hack day project is to elaborate the org chart for the US federal government that is found at http://labs.dataunbound.com/doc/2009/06/govt.treeview.v0.1.html More details to be available at http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/07/07/my-project-idea-for-the-freebase-hack-day/
Creating an org chart for the US Federal Government
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