Parltrack
- Logo
Parltrack is a free database of European Union dossiers, comittees meetings and the people who contributed to them
- URL
- http://parltrack.euwiki.org
- Keywords
- European Parliament, politics, lobbying, experts, Europe
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2011
- Launch Date
- 2011
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Lobbying
- Issue addressed
- Policy making
- Geographic Focus
- Europe
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- Yes
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
Parltrack is a European initiative to improve the transparency of legislative processes. It combines information on dossiers, representatives, vote results and committee agendas into a unique database and allows the tracking of dossiers using email and RSS. Most of the data presented is also available for further processing in JSON format. Using Parltrack it's easy to see at a glance which dossiers are being handled by committees and MEPs.
- Approach (How?)
- Using the data from europarl.europa.eu, Parltrack provides information on dossiers, representatives, vote results and committee agendas. Users can consult them and track specific dossiers by suscribing to RSS feeds or email updates.
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- Self-commissioned
- Publisher
- (Europe)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- Small Network
- yes (358 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 5 Alexa: 2,774,523 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 41/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 45/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- International
- Outcome
- ParlTrack is lauded by hacktivists as one of the cornerstones of the transparency movement, says Politico
- Last updated
- 7/12/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- https://github.com/civicdataeu/parltrack
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- One person
- Team Experience
- Research
- Some
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Some
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Agile
- Open Source
- Yes
- Open Data
- Yes
- Budget
- Self-funded
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- Sensitive
- Sustainability Planning
- Temporary
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
- Organise / Integrate Data
- http://parltrack.euwiki.org
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Documents
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- No
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Public
- Ethical Publishing
- Cited Sources
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- Dump