Re: [EPFSUG] How to make better diffs and auto-generate the sacred 'four-column working document'?

Hi Erik,

these are great use cases.

I CCd Ruben Verborgh who is a Linked Data / Semantic Web expert.

A problem is that there are several communities interested in the
topic Linked Data and Parliamentary Data which are organized in
several mailing lists. I hope that some cross-posting helped and helps
to create links between some of these communities.

Cheers,
Andreas


Erik Josefsson wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 12:19 PM, stef wrote:
>> so erik wants to see the evolution of a dossier
> 
> True! That is what I want to see, among many other things. And I
> also, like you, want to close the gap between the historical record
> of events and what is happening right now. I even want future
> projection - the Dossier Deviation Index! :-)
> 
> How do we do that?
> 
> 'The Talk of Europe' says that their data set can be queried using
> the SPARQL query language and that you can get answers to questions
> like this:
> 
> "For each EU party, get the total number of speeches held by its 
> members, broken down by country of representation."
> 
> http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/home
> 
> To me that sounds like Parltrack data could similarly be queried
> to answer the question:
> 
> "For each EU party, get the total number of contested MEP
> immunities broken down by country of representation."
> 
> http://parltrack.euwiki.org/datasets/imm/
> 
> That's great, but I would really like to be able to ask questions
> like:
> 
> "For each EU party, get the total number of amendments carried in
> 1st and 2nd reading"
> 
> and
> 
> "For each EU party, get the total number of amendments carried in
> 1st and 2nd reading that contains the word "agriculture""
> 
> Now, with the new regime that Roll Call Votes are recorded in 
> Committees, I'd like to ask:
> 
> "For each EU party, get the total number of amendments carried in 
> Committees"
> 
> Can you do that without having the voting lists? Maybe. Would VLs
> help? Probably. Would it help to look at the VLs' patterns and
> structure to see how habits are "encoded"? Certainly!
> 
> I also like to answers to questions like this:
> 
> "In which dossiers has the Commission, Council and Parliament the
> most divergent positions."
> 
> And, of course:
> 
> "In which dossiers has the Lead and Opinion Committees the most 
> divergent positions."
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> I never used SPARQL and I never tried to query the complete
> parltrack data dump:
> 
> http://parltrack.euwiki.org/dumps/
> 
> I also never worked with LOD, so I am clearly not able to tell
> anyone which tools are proper.
> 
> But it's not obvious to me that to asktheeu.org for all
> 'four-column working documents' would be completely useless in
> figuring out how to proceed.
> 
> The question itself might start an EP-internal discussion on these
> matters.
> 
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> //Erik
>

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