A metadata infrastructure for the analysis of parliamentary proceedings

Author

Gartner, Richard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Digital Humanities, King´s Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

50

Abstract

This work-in-progress article discusses DILIPAD (Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data), a project funded under the Digging Into Data Challenge. DILIPAD aims to create an extensive corpus of structured XML data of parliamentary proceedings from three countries (United Kingdom, Netherlands and Canada) in order to enable large-scale diachronic analyses of their content. The corpora integrate the textual data of proceedings within contextual metadata encoded in the XML schema Parliamentary Metadata Language (PML). The article discusses the background to the project, the construction of the corpora and highlights they ways in which they may be used for quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Keywords

XML; data analysis; government data processing; law administration; meta data; Canada; DILIPAD; Digging Into Data Challenge; Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data; Netherlands; PML; Parliamentary Metadata Language; United Kingdom; contextual metadata infrastructure; large-scale diachronic content analyses; parliamentary proceeding analysis; structured XML data; Data mining; Educational institutions; History; Materials; Pragmatics; Semantics; XML; XML; corpus analysis; metadata; parliamentary history;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Big Data (Big Data), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BigData.2014.7004452

Filename

7004452