Re: Debates of the European Parliament as LOD

Laura,

Is the data tagged or annotated somehow to specific topics?

Juan Sequeda
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Hollink, L. <l.hollink@vu.nl> wrote:

> On 08 Nov 2014, at 17:20, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
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> > On 2014-11 -05, at 11:19, Hollink, L. <l.hollink@vu.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> ----- Dataset announcement -----
> >>
> >> We are happy to announce the release of a new linked dataset: the
> proceedings of the plenary debates of the European Parliament as Linked
> Open Data..
> >>
> >> The dataset covers all plenary debates held in the European Parliament
> (EP) between July 1999 and January 2014, and biographical information about
> the members of parliament. It includes: the monthly sessions of the EP, the
> agenda of debates, the spoken words and translations thereof in 21
> languages; the speakers, their role and the country they represent;
> membership of national parties, European parties and commissions. The data
> is available though a SPARQL endpoint, see
> http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/ for more details.
> >>
> >> Please note that this is a first version; we hope you will try it out
> and send us your feedback!
> >>
> >> ----- Access to the data -----
> >> We provide access in three ways:
> >> • Through a SPARQL endpoint at
> http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/sparql/
> >> • Using the ClioPatria web interface at
> http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/
> >> • By downloading data dumps. See http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/.
> >>
> >
> > I am on a plane so I can't check but I hope also the data is Linked Data,
> > in that every URI used can be looked up directly by HTTP GET.
> >
> >
> > TimBL
>
>
> Dear Tim,
>
> Yes it is. Thanks for looking into it!
> E.g.
>         curl --location --header "Accept:application/rdf+xml"
> http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-07-20/Speech_1
> gives:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <!DOCTYPE rdf:RDF [
>     <!ENTITY dc 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
>     <!ENTITY lp 'http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/vocabulary/'>
>     <!ENTITY lp_eu 'http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/vocabulary/eu/plenary/
> '>
>     <!ENTITY rdf 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'>
>     <!ENTITY xsd 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#'>
> ]>
>
> <rdf:RDF
>     xmlns:dc="&dc;"
>     xmlns:lp="&lp;"
>     xmlns:lp_eu="&lp_eu;"
>     xmlns:rdf="&rdf;"
>     xmlns:xsd="&xsd;"
> >
> <lp_eu:Speech rdf:about="
> http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-07-20/Speech_1">
>   <lp:spokenText xml:lang="en">
>               – I declare resumed the session of the European Parliament
> adjourned on 7 May 1999, [ … etc.]
>
> Laura
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