SemWebParlParse Wiki
Current work topics
- Registrable Interests :: what different legislatures consider to be registrable interests for members.
Contents
Translations
- Member of Parliament :: RDF encoding of UKParseParl member structure.
- Constituency :: RDF encoding of UKParseParl constituency structure.
- Register of Members' interests :: RDF encoding of UKParseParl register of members' interests
- Register of Staff interests :: RDF encoding of directly-scraped UK Parliament page.
Modelling
- UKParliament :: OWL sketch.
- Parliamentarian :: OWL sketch of a Person who is a member of a legislative chamber.
- People :: accounts of people and aliases datasets
- Members of the House of Commons :: structural breakdowns of Commons data, OWL sketch (broken, redo from start)
- Members of the House Of Lords :: structural breakdowns of Lords data, OWL sketch (broken, redo from start)
- Parliamentary role :: OWL sketch of roles for a Person who is a member of a legislative chamber.
- Political Parties :: XML dataset structure, a mapping between abbreviations to names / wikipedia URLs and an OWL sketch.
- Constituencies :: XML dataset structure and OWL sketch.
- Ministerial offices :: XML dataset structure.
- Hansard debates :: XML dataset structure.
- Voting Records :: XML dataset structure.
- Written answers :: XML dataset structure.
- Written Ministerial statements :: XML dataset structure.
Notes
- Booklets :: documentation of the various scrapers and mappers
- dbpedia URL construction rules :: character mappings
- Research notes :: structural breakdown of the UK ParlParse data.
Links
Mentions
Other work
- Theyworkforyou
- Theyworkforyou NZ
- UKParlParse
- MySociety
- PublicWhip
- Journa-list
- Sunlight Foundation
- Maplight
- Govtrack
- The Long Tail of Democratic Participation :: Robert McKinnon, XTech2007
Domain links
- British Party Manifestos :: The Labour Party's website is not able to provide a copy of the manifesto.
- POST :: POST is the UK Parliament’s in-house source of independent, balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology. The aim is to inform parliamentary debate.
Ontology links
- SKOS
- Inspire spatial information in Europe
- wikipedia3
- PROTON a basic upper-level ontology
- SUMO suggested upper merged ontology
- Ontology of Government Concepts :: As Used in the CIA World Fact Book 2002
Resources and documentation
Tech links
- machine tags :: machine tags (probably not)
- RDF-aware XML processing :: possibly useful compendium.
- Darcusblog 2007/6/2 Bruce Darcus muses over a old post by Leo Simons containing some hints about RDF modelling: not using bnodes or collections. Pat Hayes, responding, adds some common sense.
