[okfn-discuss] Semantic Technologies in the Open Spending / Open Economy fields

Wed Feb 15 11:20:21 UTC 2012

Dear Peio,

This sounds like a great idea. The earliest initiative, which seemed to
do something similar is govtrack.us - for their Semantic Web features see:

http://www.govtrack.us/developers/rdf.xpd

You could also use OntoWiki (http://ontowiki.net) and start creating
data structures and datasets there - this would help you to focus on the
data and ontologies, while you would get all the infrastructure
(authoring interface, SPARQL endpoint, API etc. etc.) out of the box.

Best,

Sören

Am 15.02.2012 07:11, schrieb Peio Popov:
> Dear OKFN,
>  In the recent weeks I am playing and learning more about the general
> idea of applying Semantic Technologies to the public information about
> political funding and spending and the way it relates to the political
> activity.
> 
> My general idea of a project is to RDF-fy and link the open data about the:
> 
> 1. Political parties, their budget subsidies, donations, annual
> budgets, election campaign budgets and donations
> 2. MP's linked to the parties, their profile, parliamentary activity
> and annual tax declarations and
> 3. Public officials and other data - "somehow" linked to the political
> parties and the MPs
> 
> If it sounds too broad and vague - it probably is. I am just reading
> and experimenting for the fun of it.
> 
> What I would like to achieve as a result is something that will enable
> me to perform reasoning and inference based on the semantics of the
> data.
> 
> This kind of tasks are usually assisted by the application of an
> ontology to the dataset so my first question is if you can recommend
> such ontology in the field that I would generally call Linked
> Political/Spending Data?
> 
> I imagine further efforts in this direction would have to involve
> web/text mining and applying semantic annotations according to the
> conceptual models, so if you have any recommendations in this
> directions - please share.
> 
> Does any of these questions sounds like something you already met?
> 
> I will be grateful for any response and general comment that might
> help me in these wanders.
> 
> Peio Popov
> 
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