full text of plenary debate

[datapumpernickel]

Hi!

thanks for this initiative. At Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik we are looking forward to more open data initiatives by the EU. This looks like a great start!

I am wondering, if the plenary session documents contain any actual full-texts or if this is planned? In the current test data I cannot find any actual debate texts? Is there a planned date for an API that would allow to query the full texts of debates?

If you will update the fulltexts of the plenary debate, is there any chance, you will do so as a json or csv in a rectangular format? Working with rdf/ttl is a great thing for highly dimensional and networked data, I totally get it, but in political science, most people tend to use rectangular data formats that are more straight forward to use and can be linked via ids/keys. RDF is really not that widely adopted and I think you would see a much wider use of the data with a set of dumps in json/csv. See here, e.g.: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rdflib/vignettes/rdf_intro.html

Looking forward to feedback on this and thank you! :)