Re: Multilingual thesaurus for parliamentary data using SKOS

Dear Andreas,

Interesting project!
In case you're also interested in Korean, here's a dictionary of terms
maintained by Team POPONG in South Korea:
https://github.com/teampopong/crawlers/blob/60f1c6fa87bf2d0fc246740d05b6171824092386/glossary/glossary.csv
(And here's the web version of the same file: http://en.popong.com/glossary)

Regards,
Lucy Park

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I recently started to prepare a rudimentary multilingual thesaurus for
> parliamentary data using SKOS.
>
> Example terms are "city council", "committee", "finance committee",
> "subcommittee", "mayor | mayoress", councillor", "chairman | chairwoman"
> (and/or "chairperson"), "alderman | alderwoman" (and/or "alderperson"),
> "parliamentary caucus", "political party", "motion", "bill", "amendment"
> etc.
>
> At the moment I am mostly interested in English and German terms. But
> other languages also would be most welcome.
>
> The quality of the terms is more important than a large number of them.
>
> The thesaurus will be implemented using the Simple Knowledge
> Organization System (SKOS)[1].
>
> Elementary relations between terms (eg "finance committee" is a narrower
> term than "committee") will also be encoded.
>
> The intention is to host the thesaurus below
> "http://www.w3.org/ns/opengov" - pending an agreement with the W3C.
>
> The thesaurus can then be used together with vocabularies such as Popolo
> or OpenGovLD.
>
> Let me know if you have questions or suggestions or would like to
> contribute to this effort.
>
> Please also let me know about similar initiatives I might not yet be
> aware of (EuroVoc[2] unfortunately does not contain many of those terms
> which are relevant for municipalities).
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/
>
> [2] http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
>
>