[LINK] All Commonwealth Hansard online

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Open Australia does some stuff with Hansard..
<http://www.openaustralia.org/hansard/>

Marghanita
Tom Worthington wrote:
> Antony Barry wrote:
>> ... complete Hansard of the Australian Parliament is now available online ...
> 
> The content is good, but the navigation to get to it could be better. 
> The best place to start is from the search page. You can search Hansard 
> with a simple text string, such as "Tom Worthington", which produced 66 
> Matches: 
> <http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/summary/summary.w3p;page=0;query=%22tom%20worthington%22;resCount=Default>.
> 
> The results of the search are categorised. In this case nine of the 
> results are catalogue entries in the Parliamentary Library. Twenty are 
> from Parliamentary committees. Only seven are actual mentions by 
> parliamentarians in a chamber (in this case the the Senate):
> 
>          * [20] Committees
>          * [9] Library
>          * [29] Media
>          * [1] Publications
>          * [7] Senate
> 
> There is also a list by decade:
> 
>          * [8] 2010s
>          * [47] 2000s
>          * [11] 1990s
> 
> Here is a typical snippet displayed in the search results from 1999:
> 
> -------------------
> ADJOURNMENT - Information Technology: Access - Senate Hansard - 9 August 
> 1999
> 
>      so ago. This year's theme `The Bush Telegraph for the 21st Century' 
> targeted questions of information technology for non-metropolitan 
> regions. The range of speakers included Tom Worthington , who is the 
> immediate past president of the Computer Society; Fay Lamont, a finalist 
> in the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Awards in
> 
> Date: 09/08/1999 - Collection: Senate - ID: 
> chamber/hansards/1999-08-09/0136 - Source: Senate
> -------------------
> 
> 
> Clicking on the link for this brings up that the portion of the Hansard, 
> as a web page. There is an option to download it as PDF, or as XML:
> 
> -------------------
> <hansard xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../hansard.xsd" version="2.0">
> a^^'
> <session.header>
> <date>1999-08-09</date>
> <parliament.no>39</parliament.no>
> <session.no>1</session.no>
> <period.no>4</period.no>
> <chamber>SENATE</chamber>
> <page.no>6995</page.no>
> <proof>0</proof>
> </session.header>
> a^^'
> <chamber.xscript>
> a^^'
> <business.start>
> <day.start>1999-08-09</day.start>
> <para>	 The Senate met at 2.00 p.m.</para>
> </business.start>
> a^^'
> <debate>
> a^^'
> <debateinfo>
> <title>SENATORS: SWEARING-IN</title>
> <type>Miscellaneous</type>
> <page.no>6995</page.no>
> </debateinfo>
> ...
> <speech>
> a^^'
> <talk.start>
> a^^'
> <talker>
> <time.stamp>21:50:00</time.stamp>
> <page.no>7068</page.no>
> <name role="metadata">Payne, Sen Marise</name>
> <name role="display">Senator PAYNE</name>
> <name.id>M56</name.id>
> <electorate>NSW</electorate>
> <party>LP</party>
> <in.gov>1</in.gov>
> <first.speech>0</first.speech>
> </talker>
> a^^'
> ...
> <para>
> I have previously addressed issues relating to the IT revolution and 
> information technology in general, and most recently discussed the 
> particular challenges for those in rural and regional Australia in terms 
> of their particular route on the information superhighway. I have also 
> spoken, not in conjunction with this but in other areas, of the work of 
> the NSW Liberal Women's Council and Liberal Women's Forum and the 
> important efforts that they have put in in many policy areas. In 
> continuing to recognise their efforts, I want to put on record the 
> success of their most recent endeavour, an annual rural rendezvous held 
> in Mittagong in the New South Wales Southern Highlands which I attended 
> a week or so ago. This year's theme `The Bush Telegraph for the 21st 
> Century' targeted questions of information technology for 
> non-metropolitan regions. The range of speakers included Tom 
> Worthington, who is the immediate past president of the Computer Society...
> </para>
> -------------------
> 
> 
> While it is good that Hansard is available online, the interface could 
> be improved:
> 
> 1. Have a link on the word "Search" in text on the Parliament home page 
> (currently it is in an image with the phrase "ParlInfo Search"),
> 
> 2. Include the word "Hansard" on the search page,
> 
> 3. Add an option on the search page to limit results to the Hansard,
> 
> 4. De-clutter the search results page, by moving from the top to the 
> bottom: "Note: Where available, the PDF/Word icon below is provided to 
> view the complete and fully formatted document", "View Or Save XML" and 
> "Download Fragment". Those who need these options are likely to scroll 
> to the bottom and find the, for everyone else it will not matter,
> 
> 5. Check the search page displays correctly on a range of browsers, 
> including those for non-Microsoft operating systems, smart phones and 
> tablet computers (on my Firefox 3.6.17 browser, the search box is off 
> the right side of the page).
> 
> 


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