Re: Debates of the European Parliament as LOD

Thanks Laura!
I'll make some test on the data, I'm really curious about them...

Alfredo

+1 for me too on LDF as a parallel publishing

2014-11-05 13:55 GMT+01:00 Hollink, L. <l.hollink@vu.nl>:

>  Dear Alfredo, Pieter,
>
>  The service is up again. Sorry for the inconvenience! We might have to
> to look into alternative publishing mechanisms in the future. For now, I
> hope everything is stable. Please let me know if you notice any hiccups.
>
>  Yes, in the Talk of Europe project we do intend to update this data
> every now and then, but not continuously.
>
>  Best regards,
> Laura
>
>
>
>  On 05 Nov 2014, at 13:04, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert@okfn.org>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi Laura,
>
> What Alfredo said: all the services are down. Maybe it's interesting to
> choose a more light-weight LOD publishing mechanism which focuses on
> availability [1]?
>
> A public question: does your project intend on updating this data
> regularly with new debates?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
> [1] Check e.g., http://linkeddatafragments.org or host data dumps on a CDN
>
> On 2014-11-05 12:45, Alfredo Serafini wrote:
>
> Great! :-)
>
>  unfortunately all the services are currently down :-(
>
> 2014-11-05 12:19 GMT+01:00 Hollink, L. <l.hollink@vu.nl>:
>
>> ----- Dataset announcement -----
>>
>> We are happy to announce the release of a new linked dataset: the
>> proceedings of the plenary debates of the European Parliament as Linked
>> Open Data.
>>
>> The dataset covers all plenary debates held in the European Parliament
>> (EP) between July 1999 and January 2014, and biographical information about
>> the members of parliament. It includes: the monthly sessions of the EP, the
>> agenda of debates, the spoken words and translations thereof in 21
>> languages; the speakers, their role and the country they represent;
>> membership of national parties, European parties and commissions. The data
>> is available though a SPARQL endpoint, see
>> http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/ for more details.
>>
>> Please note that this is a first version; we hope you will try it out and
>> send us your feedback!
>>
>> ----- Access to the data -----
>> We provide access in three ways:
>> • Through a SPARQL endpoint at
>> http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/sparql/
>> • Using the ClioPatria web interface at
>> http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/
>> • By downloading data dumps. See http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/.
>>
>> We use a CC BY 4.0 license. To acknowledge us, please cite us as: *A.E.
>> van Aggelen, L. Hollink. Plenary debates of the European Parliament as
>> Linked Open Data. http://www.talkofeurope.eu/data/
>> <http://www.talkofeurope.eu/data/>. Website accessed on [*fill in date
>> *].*
>>
>>  ----- Origins the data -----
>> To generate data on the plenary debates, we generated RDF from the HTML
>> pages published on the official website of the EP [2]. We collaborated with
>> the Political Mashup project [3], who provided scripts to scrape the HTML
>> pages. The bibliographical data about members of parliament comes from the
>> Automated Database of the European Parliament by Bjørn Høyland of the
>> University of Oslo [4]. We translated this database to RDF, linked it to
>> the debate data, and made it available as Linked Data as part of the
>> dataset.
>>
>>  ----- Talk of Europe project -----
>> The data was created within the Talk of Europe
>> <http://www.talkofeurope.eu/> project [1]. To stimulate people to work
>> with our data, we organise a series of Creative Camps with bursaries for
>> participants. The next call for participation is expected to open in
>> January 2015. We look forward to your proposals!
>>
>>  If you would like to keep informed about this dataset, the Talk of
>> Europe project and the Creative Camps, please register for our mailinglist
>> at http://www.talkofeurope.eu/contact/ .
>>
>>  Kind regards
>>
>> Laura Hollink,
>> on behalf of the Talk of Europe project partners:
>> - Erasmus University Rotterdam / Erasmus Studio (Max Kemman, Martijn
>> Kleppe, Henri Beunders)
>> - VU University Amsterdam (Astrid van Aggelen, Laura Hollink)
>> - The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Johan Oomen, Jaap Blom,
>> Victor de Boer)
>> - DANS (Marnix van Berchum)
>>
>>  The Talk of Europe project is supported by CLARIN_NL, CLARIN-ERIC and
>> NWO.
>>
>> [1] http://talkofeurope..eu/ <http://talkofeurope.eu/>
>> [2] http://europarl.europa.eu/
>> [3] http://politicalmashup.nl/
>> [4] http://folk.uio.no/bjornkho/MEP/
>>
>> --- --- --- --- ---
>> Laura Hollink
>> Assistant Professor
>> Web and Media group
>> VU University Amsterdam
>> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laurah/
>>
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