Parltrack

	Parltrack is a free database of European Union dossiers, comittees meetings and the people who contributed to them
Home page	http://parltrack.euwiki.org
Approach	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.
Phase	Released
Tags	European Parliament, politics, lobbying, experts, and Europe
Practices	Collect

Project Start Date	2011
Launch Date	2011
Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Lobbying
Issue addressed	Policy making
Geographic Focus	Europe

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Query	true
Lists	true
Raw Data	true

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

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Small Network Twitter : (358 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 5 Alexa: 2774523 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 : /

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 :

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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 : true Open Data : true Budget : Self-funded Contracting : Risk Planning : Sensitive Sustainability Planning : Temporary

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Organise

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : Documents Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : External Sources Data Collection : Data Verification : false Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Public Ethical Publishing : Cited Sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Dump