LinkedSaeima: A Linked Open Dataset of Latvia’s Parliamentary Debates

Abstract

This paper describes the LinkedSaeima dataset that contains structured data about Latvia's parliamentary debates from 1993 until 2017. This information is published at http://dati.saeima.korpuss.lv as Linked Open Data. It is a part of the Corpus of Saeima (the Parliament of Latvia) released as open data for multidisciplinary research. The data model of LinkedSaeima follows the data structure of the LinkedEP dataset with a few modifications. The dataset is augmented with links to the Wikidata knowledge base that provide additional information about the speakers and named entities mentioned in the corpus.

Members of Parliament in Finland Knowledge Graph and Its Linked Open Data Service

“…Related Work Many national projects have transformed parliamentary data 23 , such as plenary session debates [9], into structured formats and enriched the data with biographical metadata, including, e.g., the Canadian Lipad project [3] and the Norwegian Talk of Norway [4]. Linked data has also been used in some works, such as the LinkedEP about the European Parliament linked data 1999-2017 [6], the Latvian LinkedSAEIMA project [5], and the Italian Parliament 24 . Speech data can be used for analysing the language and topics of speeches (cf.…”

“…This paper reports first results of the Semantic Parliament (SEMPARL) 3 project that produces a Linked Open Data (LOD) and research infrastructure for Finnish parliamentary data, and develops novel semantic computing technologies and applications to study parliamentary political culture and language. The project is related to various similar efforts in other countries [3,4,5] and in EU [6]; parliamentary open data is an important asset for rendering political decision making transparent, and such data is widely used for research on political language and culture. SEMPARL aims at three major contributions:…”

“…The main data provider is PoF but also legislative data from related sources are planned to be linked to FinnParla, such as the LawSampo data [7] from the Ministry of Justice. From the National Library, ontologies served at the Finto.fi 4 service are re-used and well as bibliographical data 5 . The Language Bank of Finland 6 contains, e.g., lots of videos of the debates, and The Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences 7 terminological definitions pertaining to legislation and politics.…”

OCR Pipeline for Transforming Parliamentary Debates into Linked Data: Case ParliamentSampo - Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web

“…The minutes of parliamentary plenary debates have been compiled into several corpora, allowing for analysis of their content and language (e.g., the corpus of the Norwegian parliament [13]; CLARIN list of parliamentary corpora 4 ). These corpora are represented using the TEI-based Parla-CLARIN scheme 5 , which has been developed within the CLARIN infrastructure to provide a unified standard [14]. The related ParlaMint project 6 is dedicated to creating comparable national parliamentary corpora based on the Parla-CLARIN scheme.…”

“…The most prominent part of the work of parliaments is the public plenary sessions, in which the Members of Parliament (MP) discuss and vote on issues on the agenda and other topics that arise [2]. Semantic Web (SW) technologies 1 and Linked Data (LD) [3] provide a promising approach for publishing and using parliamentary data in Digital Humanities (DH) [4,5,2]. The LD approach for Cultural Heritage [6] has arguably many advantages, including:…”