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D4.2.2: Parliament of Finland Ontology

Project: FIN-CLARIAH
Grant agreement: Academy of Finland no. 345610
Start date: 01-01-2022
Duration: 24 months

WP 4.2: Report on Parliament of Finland Ontology
Date of reporting: 2023-11-09

Report author: Eero Hyvönen (Aalto University)
Contributors: Eero Hyvönen (PI), Laura Sinikallio, Petri Leskinen, Senka Drobac, Jouni Tuominen, Matti La Mela, Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Minna Tamper, Rafael Leal, Heikki Rantala

Deliverable locations:

The Parliament of Finland Ontology with populated data and data services have been published Feb 14, 2023, using CC BY 4.0 license at the following platforms:

  1. Automatically daily updating CSV files of speeches in CSC’s Allas data service: https://a3s.fi/parliamentsampo/speeches/csv/index.html
  2. XML versions of speeches in Parla-CLARIN format (updated less frequently): https://a3s.fi/parliamentsampo/speeches/xml/index.html
  3. A ParlaMint-format sub-corpus of this has been published on 9.11.2023 in the repository of the pan-European ParlaMint II project: https://nl.ijs.si/et/tmp/ParlaMint/Repo/?C=M;O=D
  4. A CSV file of the Members of the Parliament and other speakers in CSC’s Allas data service: https://a3s.fi/parliamentsampo/actors/csv/index.html
  5. Speech data combined with the Parliament’s ontology, actors and other entities as linked data in RDF Turtle format is available 1) on the Linked Data Finland platform’s dataset page https://www.ldf.fi/dataset/semparl and as a data dump on the Zenodo.org data service https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7636420.
  6. Semantic portal Parlamenttisampo.fi

Software tools

New declarative version of Sampo-UI framework used in the ParliamentSampo portal:
https://github.com/SemanticComputing/sampo-ui

Learning materials

Open online video lectures course.
https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/teaching/sw-introduction/index.html

Tutorial materials and video on using Sampo-UI frameworks for portal development:
https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/tools/sampo-ui/

Events organized

2023

2022

Publications

2023

Senka Drobac, Laura Sinikallio and Eero Hyvönen: An OCR Pipeline for Transforming Parliamentary Debates into Linked Data: Case ParliamentSampo – Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publication, DHNB2023 Conference Proceedings, vol. 5, no. 1, University of Oslo Library, Norway, 2023. bib pdf link

Eero Hyvönen: Parlamenttisampo avaa eduskunnan miljoona puhetta ja kansanedustajien verkostot kaikkien tutkittaviksi. Tieteessä tapahtuu, vol. 41, no. 1, Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta (TSV), 2023. bib pdf link

Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen and Jouni Tuominen: A Data-driven Approach to Create an Ontology of Parliamentary Work: Case Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web. Proceedings of SWODCH 2023. Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage. Co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023) in Athens, Greece, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-3540, November, 2023. bib pdf link

Eero Hyvönen, Laura Sinikallio, Petri Leskinen, Senka Drobac, Rafael Leal, Matti La Mela, Jouni Tuominen, Henna Poikkimäki and Heikki Rantala: Plenary Speeches of the Parliament of Finland as Linked Open Data and Data Services. Joint Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation From Text and the First International BiKE Challenge co-located with 20th Extended Semantic Conference (ESWC 2023), pp. 1-20, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3447, August, 2023. bib pdf link

Henna Poikkimäki, Petri Leskinen and Eero Hyvönen: Applying Network and Bibliometric Analyses to Mentions of Politicians in Plenary Speeches: Case ParliamentSampo – Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web. August, 2023. Submitted for evaluation. bib pdf

Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen and Heikki Rantala: Integrating Faceted Search with Data Analytic Tools in the User Interface of ParliamentSampo – Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web. Proceedings of ESWC 2023, poster and demo papers, Sringer-Verlag, June, 2023. bib pdf

Eero Hyvönen: Creating and Using a National Linked Open Data Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage Applications and Digital Humanities Research: Lessons Learned. DARIAH Annual Event 2023, abstracts of papers, DARIAH-EU, June, 2023. bib link

Eero Hyvönen: Creating and Using a Linked Open Ontology and Data Infrastructure for Digital Humanities in Finland: Lessons Learned 2003-2023. June, 2023. Under review. bib pdf

Minna Tamper, Laura Sinikallio, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: Transforming Linguistically Annotated Finnish Parliamentary Debates Into the Parla-CLARIN Format. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Seventh Conference (DHNB 2023), Book of Abstracts (Sofie Gilbert and Annika Rockenberger (eds.)), pp. 118, University of Oslo Library, Oslo, Norway, March, 2023. bib link

Eero Hyvönen: How to Create a National Cross-domain Ontology and Linked Data Infrastructure and Use It on the Semantic Web. Programming and Data Infrastructure in Digital Humanities, Book of Abstracts, pp. 7, High Performance Computing Centre, University of Évora, Portugal, March, 2023. bib link

Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen, Laura Sinikallio, Senka Drobac, Rafael Leal, Matti La Mela, Jouni Tuominen, Henna Poikkimäki and Heikki Rantala: ParliamentSampo Infrastructure for Publishing the Plenary Speeches and Networks of Politicians of the Parliament of Finland as Open Data Services. Aalto University, Dept. of Computer Science, February, 2023. Paper published at the publication event of the ParliamentSampo data service and portal. bib pdf

Eero Hyvönen: How to Create a National Cross-domain Ontology and Linked Data Infrastructure and Use It on the Semantic Web. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, IOS Press, 2023. Forth-coming. bib pdf

Eero Hyvönen: Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web: Sampo Model and Portal Series. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 729-744, IOS Press, 2023. bib pdf link

2022

Henna Poikkimäki, Petri Leskinen, Minna Tamper and Eero Hyvönen: Analyses of Networks of Politicians Based on Linked Data: Case ParliamentSampo – Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web. Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2022), Turin, Italy, Proceedings, CEUR WS Proceedings, 2022. Accepted. bib pdf

Eero Hyvönen, Laura Sinikallio, Petri Leskinen, Matti La Mela, Jouni Tuominen, Kimmo Elo, Senka Drobac, Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Minna Tamper, Rafael Leal and Joonas Kesäniemi: Linked Data Approach for Studying Parliamentary Speeches and Networks of Politicians in Finland 1907-2021 (long paper). Digital Humanities 2022, Conference Abstracts, July 25-29, 2022 Online, Tokyo. Japan, University of Tokyo, pp. 254-257, ADHO, July, 2022. bib link

Matti La Mela, Fredrik Norén and Eero Hyvönen (eds.): Proceedings of the Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2022) Workshop. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3133, May, 2022. bib link

Eero Hyvönen, Laura Sinikallio, Petri Leskinen, Matti La Mela, Jouni Tuominen, Kimmo Elo, Senka Drobac, Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Minna Tamper, Rafael Leal and Joonas Kesäniemi: Finnish Parliament on the Semantic Web: Using ParliamentSampo Data Service and Semantic Portal for Studying Political Culture and Language. Digital Parliamentary data in Action (DiPaDA 2022), Workshop at the 6th Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference, long paper, pp. 69-85, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3133, May, 2022. bib pdf link

Minna Tamper, Rafael Leal, Laura Sinikallio, Petri Leskinen, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: Extracting Knowledge from Parliamentary Debates for Studying Political Culture and Language. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation From Text and the 1st International Workshop on Modular Knowledge co-located with 19th Extended Semantic Conference (ESWC 2022) (Sanju Tiwari, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Francesco Osborne, Dimitris Kontokostas, Jennifer D’Souza and Mayank Kejriwal (eds.)), vol. 3184, pp. 70-79, CEUR WS, May, 2022. International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (TEXT2KG 2022). bib pdf link

Matti La Mela, Fredrik Norén and Eero Hyvönen: Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2022): Introduction. Proceedings of the Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2022) Workshop, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3133, May, 2022. bib pdf link

Laura Sinikallio: Eduskunnan täysistuntojen pöytäkirjojen muuntaminen semanttiseksi dataksi ja julkaiseminen verkkopalveluna (Transformation of the Debates of the Parliament of Finland into Semantic Data and a Data Service. (in Finnish), University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, February, 2022. MSc Thesis. bib pdf link

Esko Ikkala, Eero Hyvönen, Heikki Rantala and Mikko Koho: Sampo-UI: A Full Stack JavaScript Framework for Developing Semantic Portal User Interfaces. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 69-84, January, 2022. Online version published in 2021, print version in 2022. bib pdf link

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