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🇪🇺 Want to analyze text from the EU public consultations? EU public consultations are a way in which the EU invites the broader public to publicly comment on upcoming legislation.
📦 :python: I just published a first version of a Python package {eu-consultations} to scrape and extract text from the EU website:
https://github.com/marioangst/eu_consultations- download consultation data as displayed on the EU's frontend into a validated form
- download associated files (this is the hard part about analysing this data - lots of feedback is in .docx and .pdf files)
- extract text from the files using docling and attach to feedbackYou get all data in validated form and possibly stored in huge (sorry for that) JSON files ;).
This package is part of an analysis project on feedback the EU has received via the public consultation process on digital policy we plan to present later this year, but I thought let's make some of the tools we use open source way earlier already.
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For all my #HCI / #SocialComputing / #CompSocSci friends here, I'm excited that we have Mastodon as a space to support this community in the post-Twitter times.
I think Reddit could serve a valuable auxiliary function as a place to host lasting discussions across the community. Join me at https://reddit.com/r/CompSocial/ and let's co-create a thriving community there!