talk of europe: linked data of the european parliament
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Talk of Europe Linked data of the European Parliament
CLICKNL Connected DataLab111December 2, 2014!Laura HollinkWeb and MediaComputer ScienceVU University Amsterdam
LinkedPolitics: Linked Open Data of political events, actors, media.
Talk of Europe
• Goal: publish the plenary debates of the European Parliament as Linked Data
• Linked Data: a format for publishing data on the Web, with URI’s as permanent identifiers, designed for connecting pieces of data.!!!!!!
• Why is this important? A. To allow large scale analysis
across time spans by social scientists interested in voting behavior, partisanship, lobbies, differences between countries, etc.
B. To residents of the European Union, so the electorate, access to the proceedings of the European parliament is a formal right.
Data
Data
Data
14M triples about the 30K speeches by 3K speakers (and their affiliations) in 1K session days that were held in the EU parliament so far (1999-2014)
Links to external datasets
Country namesMembers of Parliament
Members of Parliament + Parties Members of
Parliament
Searching the proceedings of the EU Parliament"Greece" in the plenary meetings of the European Parliament
Year
Nr.
of m
entio
ns
050
100
150
200
1999 2000 2001 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2010 2011 2012 2013
Searching the proceedings of the EU Parliament
"Slovenia" in the plenary meetings of the European Parliament
Year
Nr.
of m
entio
ns
020
4060
80100
1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
Searching the proceedings of the EU Parliament
"Slovenia" in the plenary meetings of the European Parliament
Year
Nr.
of m
entio
ns
020
4060
80100
1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
Example queries on the Talk-of-Europe data
• What are differences between members in terms of topics mentioned?
• What are differences between EU parties in terms of topics mentioned?
• Which new member was discussed most when they joined?
• For each EU country, get the number of speeches held by its representatives that contains the word “agriculture".
• …
Access to the data
1. We provide access in three ways:2. Through a SPARQL endpoint at http://linkedpolitics.ops.few.vu.nl/sparql/3. Using the browse and search options of ClioPatria.4. By downloading the data in turtle or RDF/XML.5. As triple patterns fragments at http://data.linkeddatafragments.org/
linkedpolitics (Thanks to Ruben Verborgh).
Creative Camps
• 3 events of one week each, where people are invited to work with our data on-sight.!
• Outcome CC 1 @ Hilversum:• Links to the Italian
parliament.• Detection of people who
speak about an unusual mix of topics.
• Sentiment analysis
Creative Camps
• 3 events of one week each, where people are invited to work with our data on-sight.!
• Outcome CC 1 @ Hilversum:• Links to the Italian
parliament.• Detection of people who
speak about an unusual mix of topics.
• Sentiment analysis
Creative Camps
• 3 events of one week each, where people are invited to work with our data on-sight.!
• Outcome CC 1 @ Hilversum:• Links to the Italian
parliament.• Detection of people who
speak about an unusual mix of topics.
• Sentiment analysis
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Credits
Funded by
Martijn Kleppe
Max Kemman
Jill Briggeman
Henri Beunders
Astrid van Aggelen
Laura Hollink
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Johan Oomen
Jaap Blom
Victor de Boer