Ontology of the Chamber of Deputies

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• Chamber of Deputies
   

Ontology

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OCD Schema Overview

This document describes the first version of the Chamber of Deputies (OCD) ontology created to describe all resources (people, events, documents) related to the Chamber and its activities under the Historical Portal project.

Major international governments are working to release public data in open format. In Italy, with this pilot project, the Chamber of Deputies aims to be the first central institution to publish data in open and standard format (for now until the 15th legislature). The OCD data model for the Chamber of Deputies is an OWL ontology expressed in RDF triples. It is the result of a long and laborious examination of the processes, activities and resources of the Chamber's operations. A work that involved internal and external professionalism and expertise in defining the descriptive model and data structuring. Starting with the concept of Legislature, which is the backbone of the entire information universe, the organs, people, acts and documents that belong to a single legislature are analyzed and the properties that link the various resources are defined. In such a complex landscape of parliamentary activity, it is well understood how difficult it has been to try to formalize the various processes and create a structure so elastic that it can be used for the different periods in the life of the chamber institution.

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