GÄST Fredrik Norén (Malmö Universitet) - ”Swedish Riksdag 1867–2022: Creating a Research Infrastructure of an Ecosystem of Linked Open Data”
Abstract: The bulk of all Swedish parliamentary documents – debates, bills, motions, and committee reports – have been digitized during the last decade. This material constitutes a rich source to study Swedish legislation, political culture, and democratic development. However, the lack of thorough metadata structure and linked parliamentary data, and the patchwork of gaps and digitization errors, have generated a somewhat primitive research infrastructure. Together with the Riksdag Library, the purpose of the SWERIK project (https://swerik-project.github.io/) is to address these limitations by constructing a research corpus with an ecosystem of linked open data of the bicameral and unicameral Riksdag, from 1867 to today.
