[okfn-be] DierenTheater, parsing (lachambre|dekamer).be (was Re: presentation)

Sun Mar 4 14:08:04 UTC 2012

Very interesting, especially if it could be a flow from preparing a law till the final published text.

A few years ago, I saw a nice demo in the Netherlands, where you could query a large database
to find out which politicians are in favor of / against of certain ideas, most discussed topics etc.

On a somewhat related note, OAISIS is looking into Akoma Ntoso, a format for parlimentary etc texts.
(http://www.akomantoso.org/)
I'm trying to write down some ideas on publishing laws on http://relex.rovin.be myself,
and of course there is BeLaws :-)

So there seems to be a group of people interested in publishing various parliamentary / legal
texts in a more (machine-)reusable way ...

Best regards

Bart
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From: okfn-be-bounces at lists.okfn.org [okfn-be-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Pieter Colpaert [pieter.colpaert at okfn.org]
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Subject: Re: [okfn-be] DierenTheater, parsing (lachambre|dekamer).be (was Re: presentation)

Hi Laurent,

This is great work! How do you wish to advertise this to the public?
What is the end-product you have in mind?

I think for this to become really useful for end-users we need an
information architect to put all these things in order.

What do you think?

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 02/25/2012 04:35 AM, Laurent Peuch wrote:
> Ohai,
>
> Some news: DierenTheater now provide nl data as well as fr data.
>
> Sadly at the time I'm writing this (lachambre|dekamer).be server is
> down again (it's the website with the worst uptime I know) so I can't
> show you the result right now.
>
>>> You can see the result here http://dieren.vnurpa.ethylix.be/lachambre/document/
>>> One example with quite a lot of data http://dieren.vnurpa.ethylix.be/lachambre/document/1825/
>
> This often happens the weekend, I'm wondering if it's because the dude
> responsible to reboot the server is at home or because the admins just
> shut down the server for the weekend.
>
> Anyway, my next step will be to add a Rest API. I don't know how much
> time this will take. Django seems to come with a lot of apps to do
> this, maybe I'll find one that match what I want.
>
> Also, I first wanted to parse the whole website before doing those 2
> previous step but my motivation didn't follow (nothing funny seems to
> be left to parse) so I'm building the API instead to confront my work
> to reality and get feedback.
>
> The current parsed data are:
> * all deputies and some related informations
> * all commissions and their members
> * all law projects and propositions (the "documents")
> * all written questions (there is more that 60 000 of it since the
>   48th legislation)
> * annual reports
>
> (Note: the web interface showing the data isn't fully up to date.)
>
> I'm not parsing any pdfs yet.
>
> After this, this will be between parsing new data and building an
> intelligent automatic update strategy (doing a sequential parse of
> the whole website every night seems a bit overkill and some part like
> the commissions agenda are likely to be changed way more often).
>
> Have a nice weekend,
>

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