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

Hi, James.

Just a note on the LOCN vocabulary [1], which is among those listed at

http://popoloproject.com/appendices/terms.html

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:

http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#locn:Address

http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#locn:fullAddress

Best,

Andrea

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[1]http://www.w3.org/ns/locn
[2]http://www.w3.org/community/locadd/


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/:
>
> 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.
>
> 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].
>
> 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
>
> Best,
>
> James
>
> On 2014-01-29, at 3:56 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>
> I only became aware of the W3C Open Government Community Group today.
>
> 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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> '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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