[open-government] Standard Parliament transcript format?

Thu Sep 29 09:27:20 UTC 2011

Hi,

In France, we made our own format from the information we needed for
our NosDeputes.fr website :
this is basically a json file with one line per intervention,
including textual comments with no authors we call didascalies

The format is the following :

{
"contexte": CONTEXT OF THE DEBATE (TITLE>SUBTITLE),
"intervention": TEXT,
"timestamp": TIMESTAMP (PROGRESSIVE VALUE ALONG DEBATE WITH HOLES
ALLOWING INSERTION OF FUTURE COMPLEMENTS),
"date": "DEBATE'S DATE,
"source": "URL_SOURCE,
"heure": TIME OF DEBATE'S BEGINNING,
"intervenant": NAME OF SPEAKER,
"fonction": ROLE OF SPEAKER (president, minister, ...),
"intervenant_url": SPEAKER's WEBPAGE IF GIVEN,
"session": PERIOD OF THE DEBATE (2010-2011 for example),
"numeros_loi": REFERENCES TO IDS OF THE LAWS DISCUSSED
"amendements": REFERENCES TO IDS OF AMENDMENTS BEING DISCUSSED
}

Good luck,

Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:03, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:41 AM, ricardo lafuente <bollecs at sollec.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of any standard or spec covering the formatting and
>> structure of transcripts of sessions of Parliament? We've searched for quite
>> some time without success.
>>
>> This is something that we have been discussing here in Portugal and believe
>> it would be a great step to open yet another avenue where open data
>> standards can make a difference. There are naturally hurdles in the process
>> (e.g. country-specific rules), but it's a goal worth aiming for.
>>
>> If there's not anything being worked on, we'd love to begin drafting such a
>> specification, and would welcome any advice or help in this effort. Anyone?
>
> http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ (UK Parliament transcripts site) has
> this format http://ukparse.kforge.net/parlparse/
>
> This is used throughout the world in other Parliaments;
> http://theyworkforyou.co.nz/ http://www.openaustralia.org/
> http://www.kildarestreet.com/
>
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