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 _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
