KildareStreet Part Two: The Other House

A substantial part of the parser was reusable enough to make short work of the next major milestone for KildareStreet.com, although the standard of source material published by the Oireachtas was an order of magnitude worse than the Dáil's.

Je vous présente: Seanad Éireann -- every word uttered since January 20th, 2004.

That's another 1.5 million words or so.

And yes, this means you can sign up for email alerts and whatnot for Senators too, and search through the record for things uttered in the Seanad. All the same good stuff, but twice as much. Well, one and a half times.

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Paul Grout (not verified) | May 11, 2009 - 23:23

Hey John,

Read the write up about KildareStreet.com on the Business Post and remembered you talking about it a Bar Camp Cork. Just checked it out, pretty impressive. nice one.

Paul

Niall (not verified) | May 18, 2009 - 14:22

What are the chances of getting our esteemed euro reps on there as well? Or are the EU less forthcoming with the info?

johnh | May 19, 2009 - 11:18

The European Parliament record records what was said, in the language it was said in. Translations don't arrive for a *long* time.

But have a look at theyworkfor.eu for an interesting stab at the problem.

If they don't do anything with it, I might...