• Data Specification
• Appendices
• Inventory of terms from survey

Namespaces

Prefix	Namespace
ad	http://schemas.talis.com/2005/address/schema#
bf	http://bibframe.org/vocab/
bio	http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html
con	http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/contact#
cwork	http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/
dcterms	http://purl.org/dc/terms/
event	http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#
foaf	http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
gadm	http://gadm.geovocab.org/ontology#
geo	http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#
geom	http://geovocab.org/geometry#
geop	http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo/geopolitical/resource/
geosparql	http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#
gn	http://www.geonames.org/ontology#
icaltzd	http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/icaltzd#
locn	http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#
lode	http://linkedevents.org/ontology/
nco	http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nco#
ncal	http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/04/02/ncal#
nie	http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/01/19/nie#
ocd	http://dati.camera.it/ocd/
oparl	http://oparl.org/schema/1.0/
org	http://www.w3.org/ns/org#
person	http://www.w3.org/ns/person#
poder	http://dev.poderopedia.com/vocab/
ptop	http://www.ontotext.com/protontop#
schema	http://schema.org/
sem	http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/2009/11/sem/
skos	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
spatial	http://geovocab.org/spatial#
vcard	http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#

Classes

• People and organizations
  • Person
  • Organization
  • Membership
  • Post
  • Address
• Motions and voting
  • Motion
  • Vote event
  • Count
  • Vote
• Other classes
  • Area
  • Event
  • Speech

The PML Schema reuses the properties sources, externalLinks, startDate and endDate across classes.

Person

• vCard’s terms are from the RDF encoding of vCard 4.0, except for DEATHDATE which is from RFC 6474.

Organization

• Schema.org adds a new property for each identifier scheme, e.g. duns, globalLocationNumber, taxID and vatID, and each classification scheme, e.g. isicV4 and naics.
• In PML Schema, organizational hierarchies can have a maximum depth of five.

Membership

• In PML Schema, memberships are embedded on person objects.

Post

• PML Schema has the properties startDate and endDate for the dates of creation and elimination.

Address

• To disambiguate between different telephone types, Schema.org adds faxNumber, LDAP adds mobile, pager and facsimileTelephoneNumber and NIEM adds ContactFaxNumber, ContactMobileTelephoneNumber and ContactPagerNumber.
• LDAP adds properties like homePostalAddress to disambiguate between different address types.

Motion

• Canada has two ways of expressing motions: from the votes list page and from the vote detail page.
• Czech Republic publishes data on motions declared confusing.
• Ireland doesn’t distinguish between motions and vote events.
• Italy doesn’t define a Motion class, but we list the properties shared with the VoteEvent class.
• Norway publishes voting records as CSV and XML.
• Sweden classifies motions as sakfrågan or motivfrågan. “rm” is an abbreviation of “Riksmöte”.
• Switzerland offers an API and bulk downloads.
• Canada, Germany, the US House and the US Senate have terms for the session’s legislature: parliament, Wahlperiode, congress and congress, respectively.
• Canada and Toronto have terms for meetings: sitting and meeting, respectively.

Vote event

• Canada has three ways of expressing votes: in the Hansard, from the votes list page and from the vote detail page.
• Czech Republic records repeat votes, along with the person requesting the repeat.
• Toronto publishes reports for each voter.
• Switzerland has the properties meaningYes and meaningNo for the meaning of voting “Yes” or “No”.

Count

• The Cornell Legal Information Institute Legislative Metadata Project has explicit properties for counts: hasYeaTally, hasNayTally and hasNoVoteTally.
• Brazil has explicit columns for counts: SIM, NÃO, ABSTENÇÃO, OBSTRUÇÃO and BRANCO.
• Bulgaria has explicit properties for counts: За, Против, Въздържали and се Гласували.
• Canada has explicit properties for counts on its votes list page: TotalYeas, TotalNays and TotalPaired.
• Czech Republic has explicit properties for counts: pro, proti, zdrzel and nehlasoval.
• Georgia has explicit properties for counts: yes_votes, no_votes, abstain_votes and absent.
• Hong Kong has explicit properties for counts (present-count, yes-count, no-count, and abstain-count) and for groups (functional-constituency and geographical-constituency).
• Ireland has explicit properties for options: membersvotedyes, membersvotedno and membersabsent.
• Italy has explicit properties for counts: favorevoli, contrari, astenuti, votanti and presenti.
• Norway has explicit properties for counts: antall_for, antall_ikke_tilstede and antall_mot.
• Spain has explicit properties for counts: Presentes, AFavor, EnContra, Abstenciones and NoVotan.
• The US House has explicit properties for counts: yea-total, nay-total, present-total and not-voting-total.
• The US Senate has explicit properties for counts: yeas, nays, present and absent.

Vote

• Brazil has both DBF files and fixed-width text files without headers that follow a schema.
• Canada has explicit properties for options on its vote detail page: Yea, Nay and Paired.
• Germany has explicit properties for options: ja, nein, Enthaltung, ungültig and nichtabgegeben.
• Ireland has explicit properties for options: membersvotedyes, membersvotedno and membersabsent.
• Norway occasionally has explicit properties for options: For and Mot.

Area

• Schema.org adds a new property for each identifier scheme, e.g. globalLocationNumber, and each classification scheme, e.g. isicV4.
• FAO adds a new property for each identifier scheme, e.g. codeDBPediaID.

Event

• The NEPOMUK Calendar Ontology (NCAL) has a detailed discussion of prior work.
• The Simple Event Model (SEM) has an accompanying paper.
• RFC 5545 specifies the iCalendar data format.

Speech

• The Akoma Ntoso terms are from speechAtts, show and ANcontainers.