Hi Peio, The UK Government has worked a lot on organising and publishing data in semantic ways, including using RDF and a series of ontologies, so that might be a good place to start. For example, the payments ontology [1] is introduced as:
> There is ongoing work within both local and central government on publication > of data on payments to suppliers. Initially such data is generally being > published as raw spreadsheets but there is a desire to move towards > publication using open web standards that facilitate combination and > comparison of data. Such linked data (http://linkeddata.org/) approaches can > offer a number of benefits which complement publication in raw spreadsheet > form. It might be a good place to start; and there is more specifically on Linked Data in the UK government too [2] There has also been a lot of work around public transparency via the IATI, which uses my employer's project to publish information on aid spending [3] as Linked Data, using their own ontology [4] and skos [5] (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) for structuring their data too. I hope that's helpful. -Z [1] http://data.gov.uk/resources/payments [2] http://data.gov.uk/linked-data [3] http://kasabi.com/dataset/iati [4] http://www.iatistandard.org/ontology# [5] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Peio Popov <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > 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] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss -- -- Zach Beauvais | @zbeauvais (http://www.twitter.com/zbeauvais) www.zachbeauvais.com (http://www.zachbeauvais.com) [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
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