Introducing PML (Parliamentary Markup Language)

This post is from the project’s metadata specialist, Richard Gartner: A key feature of the Dilipad project is its use of the XML schema PML (Parliamentary Metadata Language) as its core metadata format. PML was devised as part of an earlier project, LIPARM...

Digging into Parliamentary Data tutorial

Jaap Kamps and Maarten Marx (both University of Amsterdam) will give a tutorial at Digital Libraries 2014, London, called Digging into Parliamentary Data. Date: Monday, 8th September. The tutorial will show how to incrementally annotate textual corpora, starting from...

Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data

The IHR is one of the partners on an international project, Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data, to research parliamentary language on an unprecedented scale. We are leading the UK arm of a collaboration with the Netherlands and Canada which will enrich and analyse...

Introducing the History of Parliament

This is a post by Paul Seaward, introducing the History of Parliament – of which he is the director – and its involvement in the project. The History of Parliament has long been an established feature in the landscape of British history. The product of an...

The University of Amsterdam’s PoliticalMashup

Maarten Marx of PoliticalMashup has written a post explaining the background to the project: The PoliticalMashup project at the University of Amsterdam started collecting parliamentary proceedings in 2008. We started with Dutch proceedings and have since moved to...