Re: OParl project for Linked Parliamentary Data [via Open Government Community Group]

Thanks, Andrea! I've updated all the links.

On 2014-02-26, at 3:48 AM, Andrea Perego wrote:

> Hi, James.
> 
> Just a note on the LOCN vocabulary [1], which is among those listed at
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> http://popoloproject.com/appendices/terms.html
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> At the end of Nov 2013, the vocabulary was installed in W3C space, under the responsibility of the LOCADD CG [2]. So, this is just to let you know that the relevant terms, locn:Address and locn:fullAddress, should be linked to, respectively:
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> http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#locn:Address
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> http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#locn:fullAddress
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> Best,
> 
> Andrea
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> [1]http://www.w3.org/ns/locn
> [2]http://www.w3.org/community/locadd/
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> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:31 AM, James McKinney <james@opennorth.ca> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I added OParl's terms to this survey of terms used by different specifications: http://popoloproject.com/appendices/terms.html
> 
> For future reference, here are the locations of example OParl JSON documents within the specification at http://oparl.org/spezifikation/:
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> 5.2.12 OParlSystem: an API implementing OParl
> 5.3.12 OParlBody: an organization like a government
> 5.4.3 OParlCommittee: a committee
> 5.5.3 OParlPerson: a person
> 5.6.3 OParlOrganization: an organization like a party
> 5.7.3 OParlMeeting: a meeting
> 5.8.3 OParlAgendaitem: an agenda item
> 5.9.3 OParlPaper: a printed paper
> 5.10.2 OParlDocument: a digital document
> 5.12.2 OParlLocation: a geographic loation (point, path or polygon)
> 
> From my reading, OParlOrganization, OParlBody, OParlPerson can probably benefit from the research that went into Popolo's Organization  [1] and Person [2] classes. If you want to use JSON-LD, you will need to match your properties to RDF terms, and Popolo has already done that for you. You would have to change some terms, like first_name and last_name, which are not very friendly to international users.
> 
> Also, I could not find the membership model in OParl. Popolo has a rich membership/post model that is very flexible and allows you to represent both historical and current information. If you intend to define such a model in OParl, I would recommend looking at how Popolo models it, as it has gone through several revisions and has learned from many people's experience.
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> For the other OParl classes, you may want to look at the other specifications referenced by the Popolo issues tagged with the label "New class" [3].
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> 1. http://popoloproject.com/specs/organization.html
> 2. http://popoloproject.com/specs/person.html
> 3. https://github.com/opennorth/popolo-spec/issues?labels=New+class&page=1&state=open
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> Best,
> 
> James
> 
> On 2014-01-29, at 3:56 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
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>> I only became aware of the W3C Open Government Community Group today.
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>> A grassroots initiative named OParl is active in Germany with the aim to
>> standardize the format of parliamentary data of councils of municipalities, city
>> councils and other similar councils. The text on the website so far is only
>> available in German, sorry, but the [...]
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>> This post sent on Open Government Community Group
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>> 'OParl project for Linked Parliamentary Data'
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>> http://www.w3.org/community/opengov/2014/01/29/oparl-project-for-linked-parliamentary-data/
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>> Learn more about the Open Government Community Group: 
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>> http://www.w3.org/community/opengov
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