The portal is live and accessible since January 2023 at https://data.europarl.europa.eu/
The below call for beta testers was relevant August-November 2022. However, as we are preparing new datasets, we might be using this section again in the future.
August 2022
Over the course of 2021, the European Parliament pursued a project to make its public data available as open data. The project will be launched operationally in the 4th quarter of 2022, with the release of the European Parliament Open Data Portal. Data made available cover the organisation of the European Parliament, its activities, and the documents produced during the legislative process.
The main ambition of the project is to make useful data available to re-users and to facilitate the development of new services and analyses by commercial companies, journalists, and non governmental organisations.
At this stage, the European Parliament wishes to better know the possible reuses of data and documents, and wishes to address the needs of potential reusers of content made available or on its means of distribution.
The European Parliament Open Data project team is looking for companies, data journalists and non-governmental organisations to participate in the beta testing phase of the project. The beta testing phase will begin in August 2022 and end in November 2022.
For this purpose, this repository makes available samples and provisional versions of the data that will be published through the European Parliament Open Data Portal.
If you are interested in being involved, please review the data and data structures made available in this repository, and provide your feedback by creating an issue.
ℹ️ Please note that the data available from this repository are unstable, and only made available for review porposes. The official version of this data is the one that will be published on the European Parliament Open Data Portal.
Seven data collections will be made available as open data for the beta testing phase:
- Organisation of the European Parliament, including the description of its political groups, delegations, committees.
- Members of European Parliament with detailed information about their memberships.
- Calendar events of the European Parliament. This dataset contains the list of calendar events of the European Parliament: data about meetings of the European Parliament. It also provides links to the related documents: agendas, minutes and verbatim reports of proceedings (debates).
- Plenary documents: Texts tabled for the Plenary of the European Parliament, containing reports, motions for resolutions, amendments, etc.
- Adopted texts: Texts adopted by the European Parliament, containing resolutions, legislative resolutions, legislative acts, opinions, declarations, decisions, recommendations, etc.
- Plenary session documents: Documents related to the activities in Plenary of the European Parliament, containing agendas, minutes (incl. results of votes), verbatim reports of proceedings (debates).
- Parliamentary questions: Parliamentary questions and answers, containing oral questions, written questions, interpellations, etc.
Samples of these datasets are available from the data folder of this repository, available in RDF (Turtle). CSV and JSON-LD versions will be also made available later.
RDF datasets are multilingual and rely on the multilingual controlled vocabularies published by the EU Publications Office (types of event, types of documents, subjects of the legislative proposal, etc.).
CSV datasets are monolingual, with a version in each of the 24 official languages of the EU.
The datasets of the organisation charts and of the Members of the European Parliament are based on the W3C Organization Ontology (an ontology designed to describe organisations).
Datasets on parliamentary activities are based on the ELI and ELI-DL ontologies. These ontologies were designed within the framework of the ELI project for the interoperability of legislation and legislative processes within EU Member States.
The documents are described with metadata conformant to Dublin Core and the ELI ontology.
The project takes in account the standards defined for linked open data.
Documentation of data models is available from the data-structure folder of this repository.
Moreover, the controlled vocabularies used are available from the controlled-vocabularies folder of this repository.
The content of this repository is distributed under the terms and conditions described in the European Parliament Legal Notice.