Hi Laura,
What Alfredo said: all the services are down. Maybe it's interesting to
choose a more light-weight LOD publishing mechanism which focuses on
availability [1]?
A public question: does your project intend on updating this data
regularly with new debates?
Kind regards,
Pieter
[1] Check e.g., http://linkeddatafragments.org or host data dumps on a CDN
On 2014-11-05 12:45, Alfredo Serafini wrote:
Great! :-)
unfortunately all the services are currently down :-(
2014-11-05 12:19 GMT+01:00 Hollink, L. <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
----- 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/.
We use a CC BY 4.0 license. To acknowledge us, please cite us as:
/A.E. van Aggelen, L. Hollink. Plenary debates of the European
Parliament as Linked Open Data. http://www.talkofeurope.eu/data/.
Website accessed on [/fill in date/]./
----- Origins the data -----
To generate data on the plenary debates, we generated RDF from the
HTML pages published on the official website of the EP [2]. We
collaborated with the Political Mashup project [3], who provided
scripts to scrape the HTML pages. The bibliographical data about
members of parliament comes from the Automated Database of the
European Parliament by Bjørn Høyland of the University of Oslo
[4]. We translated this database to RDF, linked it to the debate
data, and made it available as Linked Data as part of the dataset.
/
/
----- Talk of Europe project -----
The data was created within the Talk of Europe
<http://www.talkofeurope.eu> project [1]. To stimulate people to
work with our data, we organise a series of Creative Camps with
bursaries for participants. The next call for participation is
expected to open in January 2015. We look forward to your proposals!
If you would like to keep informed about this dataset, the Talk of
Europe project and the Creative Camps, please register for our
mailinglist at http://www.talkofeurope.eu/contact/ .
Kind regards
Laura Hollink,
on behalf of the Talk of Europe project partners:
- Erasmus University Rotterdam / Erasmus Studio (Max Kemman,
Martijn Kleppe, Henri Beunders)
- VU University Amsterdam (Astrid van Aggelen, Laura Hollink)
- The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Johan Oomen,
Jaap Blom, Victor de Boer)
- DANS (Marnix van Berchum)
The Talk of Europe project is supported by CLARIN_NL, CLARIN-ERIC
and NWO.
[1] http://talkofeurope..eu/ <http://talkofeurope.eu/>
[2] http://europarl.europa.eu/
[3] http://politicalmashup.nl/
[4] http://folk.uio.no/bjornkho/MEP/
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Laura Hollink
Assistant Professor
Web and Media group
VU University Amsterdam
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laurah/ <http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Elaurah/>
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