On 08 Nov 2014, at 17:20, Tim Berners-Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 2014-11 -05, at 11:19, Hollink, L. <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> ----- 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/.
>>
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> 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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