| --- |
| language: |
| - el |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: OpenGov Greek Public Deliberations v2 |
| tags: |
| - greek |
| - deliberations |
| - public-consultation |
| - government |
| - civic-participation |
| - legislation |
| - legal |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| --- |
| |
| # OpenGov Greek Public Deliberations v2 |
|
|
| **Dataset Info** |
|
|
| This dataset is a structured snapshot of the Greek government's public e-consultation platform [OpenGov.gr](https://www.opengov.gr) - the official portal where Greek ministries publish draft legislation and policy initiatives for article-by-article public commentary before they are tabled in the Hellenic Parliament. Each consultation typically covers a single bill or policy proposal and is opened for a fixed window during which citizens, civil-society organizations, professional bodies, and other stakeholders submit substantive comments. |
|
|
| The dataset is the **second iteration** (`v2`) of an earlier glossAPI release of the same source. Compared to the previous version, `v2` introduces a normalized nested schema (consultation → articles → comments), drops a large number of empty/redundant scraping-pipeline fields, parses date strings to native timestamps, and replaces the raw HTML article bodies with cleaned plain text (`body_text`). |
|
|
| The corpus contains **1,168 consultations** spanning **2009–2026**, hosted by **36 different Greek ministries**, including their full set of **30,505 legislative articles**, **348,380 citizen comments**, and **2,286 supporting documents** (impact analyses, reports, accompanying drafts). The data was scraped from `opengov.gr` between **2026-04-06** and **2026-04-08**. |
|
|
| The structure preserves the document hierarchy of an actual consultation: |
| - A **consultation** corresponds to a single piece of draft legislation or policy proposal posted by a ministry. |
| - Each consultation contains an ordered list of **articles** (`άρθρα`) of the draft. |
| - Each article contains an ordered list of **comments** submitted by citizens or organizations on that specific article. |
| - Each consultation can also contain associated **documents** (e.g. impact assessments, accompanying analyses, deliberation reports). |
|
|
| This shape makes the dataset suitable for both consultation-level analysis (legislative scope, ministry coverage, comment volume) and fine-grained NLP research over the actual textual content of the laws and the public reactions they elicited. |
|
|
| **Metadata Info** |
|
|
| The parquet has one row per consultation. The full schema, including nested lists, is: |
|
|
| | Path | Type | Description | |
| | ------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| | `consultation_id` | int64 | Internal numeric primary key for the consultation. | |
| | `post_id` | string | WordPress post id assigned by `opengov.gr`. | |
| | `url` | string | Canonical URL of the consultation on `opengov.gr`. | |
| | `title` | string | Title of the consultation (typically the title of the draft law / policy initiative). | |
| | `start_minister_message` | string | Opening message of the responsible minister introducing the consultation. | |
| | `end_minister_message` | string | Closing message of the minister published after the consultation period (may be empty). | |
| | `start_date` | timestamp[us] | Date/time the consultation was opened to the public. | |
| | `end_date` | timestamp[us] | Date/time the consultation was closed. | |
| | `scraped_at` | timestamp[us] | Date/time this consultation was fetched from `opengov.gr` (per-row scrape provenance). | |
| | `ministry` | struct | Information about the originating ministry. | |
| | `ministry.ministry_id` | int64 | Internal numeric id of the ministry. | |
| | `ministry.code` | string | Short code used in `opengov.gr` URLs (e.g. `minenv`, `minfin`). | |
| | `ministry.name` | string | Official name of the ministry in Greek. | |
| | `ministry.url` | string | URL of the ministry's section on `opengov.gr`. | |
| | `articles` | list<struct> | Ordered list of legislative articles included in the draft under consultation. | |
| | `articles[].article_id` | int64 | Internal id of the article. | |
| | `articles[].title` | string | Article heading as published. | |
| | `articles[].url` | string | Canonical URL of the article on `opengov.gr`. | |
| | `articles[].body_text` | string | Plain-text body of the article (extracted from the original HTML, NFC-normalized). | |
| | `articles[].comments` | list<struct> | Ordered list of citizen / organization comments on this specific article. | |
| | `articles[].comments[].comment_row_id`| int64 | Globally unique primary key for each comment. | |
| | `articles[].comments[].content` | string | Plain-text content of the comment (NFC-normalized). | |
| | `articles[].comments[].date` | timestamp[us] | Submission date/time of the comment. | |
| | `documents` | list<struct> | Ordered list of supporting documents attached to the consultation. | |
| | `documents[].document_id` | int64 | Internal id of the document. | |
| | `documents[].title` | string | Title of the document. | |
| | `documents[].url` | string | URL of the document on `opengov.gr`. | |
| | `documents[].type` | string | Document type, one of `law_draft`, `analysis`, `other_draft`, `other_report`, `deliberation_report`, `other`. | |
|
|
| **Note on Timestamps** |
|
|
| All `timestamp[us]` fields in this dataset (`start_date`, `end_date`, `scraped_at`, `articles[].comments[].date`) are stored as timezone-naive values (no timezone tag in the schema), but the wall-clock values represent **Athens local time** (`Europe/Athens` - EET in winter, EEST in summer). This matches the local time configured on the source platform `opengov.gr`, which is operated by the Greek government (EKDDA). The values are therefore *not* UTC and *not* US time. To work with these timestamps in a timezone-aware way, localize them on read, e.g.: |
|
|
| ```python |
| import pandas as pd |
| df = pd.read_parquet("opengov_deliberations_v2.parquet") |
| df["start_date"] = df["start_date"].dt.tz_localize( |
| "Europe/Athens", ambiguous="NaT", nonexistent="shift_forward" |
| ) |
| ``` |
|
|
| **Dataset Statistics** |
|
|
| * Consultations (rows): 1.168 |
| * Articles (nested): 30.505 |
| * Comments (nested): 348.380 |
| * Documents (nested): 2.286 |
| * Ministries covered: 36 |
| * Coverage (consultation start dates): 2009-10-19 - 2026-03-31 |
| * Scrape window: 2026-04-06 - 2026-04-08 |
| * Size: 357,71 MB |
| * Words: 82.937.627 (counted on all natural-language fields, whitespace-separated) |
| * Tokens: 111.390.719 (counted on all natural-language fields with the `nlpaueb/bert-base-greek-uncased-v1` WordPiece tokenizer, no special tokens, no truncation) |
|
|
| The fields included in the word/token count are: `title`, `start_minister_message`, `end_minister_message`, `ministry.name`, `articles[].title`, `articles[].body_text`, `articles[].comments[].content`, `documents[].title`. Identifiers, URLs, timestamps, and short categorical fields (`ministry.code`, `documents[].type`) are excluded. |
|
|
| **Usage** |
|
|
| This dataset is useful for: |
|
|
| * Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks for Modern Greek, especially in the legal and legislative register |
| * Argument mining, opinion analysis, and stance detection on civic-participation data |
| * Summarization, retrieval, and question answering over draft Greek legislation |
| * Civic-tech applications: tracking legislative activity, citizen engagement metrics, ministry-level analyses |
| * Building Greek language models, lexicons, or domain-adapted embeddings for the legal/policy domain |
| * Sociolinguistic and political-science research on Greek public deliberation 2009–2026 |
|
|
| The text in `articles[].body_text` is extracted from the original HTML on `opengov.gr` via plain-text stripping and is whitespace- and unicode-normalized; users who require the original HTML formatting should refer back to the source URLs (`articles[].url`). Comment text (`articles[].comments[].content`) is preserved as submitted by users on the platform, with usernames anonymized at source by `opengov.gr`. |
|
|
| **License** |
|
|
| This dataset is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license. |
|
|
| The license is a forward-compatible upgrade of the [CC BY 3.0 GR](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/gr/) license under which `opengov.gr` itself releases its content. Per the official [`opengov.gr` Terms of Use](https://www.opengov.gr/home/%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CF%87%CF%81%CE%AE%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82) (operated by the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government - EKDDA): *"Το συνολικό περιεχόμενο του παρόντος δικτυακού τόπου διατίθεται στο κοινό με τους ειδικότερους όρους της Ελληνικής άδειας Creative Commons Αναφορά Προέλευσης (CC BY v.3.0)..."*. Citizen comments are also released under Creative Commons by participation, per the [`opengov.gr` Πλαίσιο Αρχών](http://www.opengov.gr/home/?page_id=312). This is consistent with Greek Law 4727/2020 (art. 66) and EU Directive 2019/1024 on the re-use of public sector information. |
|
|
| When using this dataset, please attribute: |
|
|
| > *OpenGov Greek Public Deliberations v2*, glossAPI (EELLAK), derived from the OpenGov.gr platform of the Hellenic Republic / National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA), licensed under CC BY 4.0. |
|
|
| **Contact** |
|
|
| For feedback contact: glossapi.team@eellak.gr |
|
|
