- From: Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:18:23 +0100
- To: public-opengov@w3.org
- CC: open-government@lists.okfn.org, ris@lists.okfn.org, oparl-tech@lists.okfn.org
Dear all, I recently started to prepare a rudimentary multilingual thesaurus for parliamentary data using SKOS. Example terms are "city council", "committee", "finance committee", "subcommittee", "mayor | mayoress", councillor", "chairman | chairwoman" (and/or "chairperson"), "alderman | alderwoman" (and/or "alderperson"), "parliamentary caucus", "political party", "motion", "bill", "amendment" etc. At the moment I am mostly interested in English and German terms. But other languages also would be most welcome. The quality of the terms is more important than a large number of them. The thesaurus will be implemented using the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)[1]. Elementary relations between terms (eg "finance committee" is a narrower term than "committee") will also be encoded. The intention is to host the thesaurus below "http://www.w3.org/ns/opengov" - pending an agreement with the W3C. The thesaurus can then be used together with vocabularies such as Popolo or OpenGovLD. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions or would like to contribute to this effort. Please also let me know about similar initiatives I might not yet be aware of (EuroVoc[2] unfortunately does not contain many of those terms which are relevant for municipalities). Cheers, Andreas [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/ [2] http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
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