DDP Data refresh
As at 15:00 the DDP team investigating an issue, started to refresh data. We are re-building our triple store which means that we expect our data to be back on line by this evening. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.
Read more...Introducing Briefing Papers
The data provides access to research briefings produced by the Libraries of the House of Commons and House of Lords and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). There are two ways of retrieving data from the platform Method 1) Retrieving data directly by consuming atom feeds and resources. To get a feed of […]
Read more...Looking to the future
Our alpha is live and we’ve made several changes over the past week. These include some minor bug fixes and greater consistency in the look and feel. We are now focused on providing more data, which is after all is the goal. On the near horizon are Commons Divisions, Lords Divisions and Votes and Proceedings data. […]
Read more...Accessing resources from data.parliament
In data.parliament data is contained in resources and a resource can belong in one or more datasets. An example of this would be that a briefing paper is a resource, and it belongs to the briefing papers dataset. Each resource that is produced by the UK Parliament is given a unique public URI and this […]
Read more...How data.parliament provides its API capabilities
data.parliament uses an open source product called ELDA to provide a configurable way to access RDF data using simple RESTful URLs that are translated into queries to a SPARQL endpoint. The majority of Data in data.parliament is exposed as RDF. RDF or the Resource Description Framework is a general framework for how to describe any […]
Read more...Welcome to data.parliament – The Blog
data.parliament is a platform that enables the sharing of UK Parliament’s data with consumers both within and outside of Parliament. Designed to complement existing data services it aims to be the central publishing platform and data repository for data that is produced by Parliament. This is our initial ‘alpha’ release. data.parliament provides both a repository […]
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