Fwd: vocabularies for parliamentary proceedings

We've just had this query on the WebSchemas list; does anyone here
have more pointers?

Dan


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Date: 20 February 2013 15:36
Subject: Re: vocabularies for parliamentary proceedings
To: "Tarasova, Tatiana" <T.Tarasova@uva.nl>
Cc: "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>


On 18 February 2013 16:58, Tarasova, Tatiana <T.Tarasova@uva.nl> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am looking for the existing vocabularies/ontologies (in English) that can
> be used to describe the structure of documents of parliamentary proceedings,
> i.e., written records of parliamentary meetings. For example, I am
> interested in expressing such concepts as parliamentary proceedings, topics
> (discussed agenda of the proceedings), speeches inside topics (verbal ) and
> paragraphs that constitute parliamentary speeches.
>
> Is anybody aware of such vocabularies? So far I have not found anything
> specific, only vocabularies that allow to describe structure of generic
> documents such as [1] or [2] .

I had a quick look and found
http://cantorva.com/2009NS/twfyl-lod-demo/vocab/ based on searching
for 'theyworkforyou' (see
http://www.mysociety.org/projects/theyworkforyou/ ) and 'rdf'. There
was also a thread ages ago on the FOAF list about describing the
Italian parliament,
http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/foaf-dev/2008-October/009396.html
For US, GovTrack might be of interest:
http://datahub.io/dataset/govtrack

Hope this helps,

Dan

> [1] http://salt.semanticauthoring.org/ontologies/sdo#
> [2] http://purl.org/spar/doco/Paragraph
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tatiana
> PhD candidate at Information and Language Processing Systems group
> http://ilps.science.uva.nl
> University of Amsterdam

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