Dear Peio, why not try to ACE-ify knowledge of this area and get directly OWL-ontology using APE?
see http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/docs/ Alex 2012/2/15 Peio Popov <[email protected]> > 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 >
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