- From: Holm, Jeanne M (1760) <jeanne.m.holm@jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:03:20 +0000
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, eGov W3C <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Dan-- It might be that some of the work behind the new Open States http://openstates.org/ from Sunlight Foundation would be useful here. Also useful could be: Ontologies for eGovernment: http://oegov.org/ W3C Organization Ontology: http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/ --Jeanne ********************************************************** Jeanne Holm Evangelist, Data.gov U.S. General Services Administration Cell: (818) 434-5037 Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn: JeanneHolm ********************************************************** On 2/20/13 7:39 AM, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@danbri.org> wrote: >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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