This repo contains code and data from a historical index (1881-1987) of Dublin City Council meeting notes (http://databases.dublincity.ie/minutes/).
Goals of this project are:
- Clean up the data into a more structured format
- Use NLP and geocoding to attach geographical locations to each element
- Enrich the text with linked data tags from DBPedia where possible
- Allow semantic querying over the data.
Inspired by the experience of a datathon related to Dublin City Council Data from Dublin Inquirer (https://www.counciltracker.ie/)
- Generated a gazetteer for Dublin streets and areas (
data/dublin_gazetteer.csv) - This combined a streetname list from logainm.ie with placenames gazetteer from geonames.
- Wrote some code to loop through the Dublin City Council minutes (
minutes/dublin_city_council.tsv) - Output a json file containing placename frequencies in the corpus.
- TODO : Geocode these using Google Maps API
- TODO : Further enrich this data using dbpedia_spotlight allowing semantic search and explanations (https://github.com/dbpedia-spotlight/dbpedia-spotlight)
- TODO : Create frontend using OpenStreetMap and allow users to view the history of a location through Dublin City Council data.
- TODO : Visualise the change in locational focus of the council over 100 years (building of new suburbs in 1960s and 1970s, etc)
- Renamed or removed streets or locations (Sackville St to O'Connell Street, Kingsbridge to Heuston Station)
- Compile list of non-street-landmarks in Dublin (parks, rivers, etc)
- Evaluate coverage of gazetteer for areas (Dolphins's Barn, Pimlico, etc)