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# OpenGov Greek Public Deliberations 

**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.

**Repository Updates and Versioning**

The repository is divided into two versions based on the source website and data collection method:

- *archive_version:* Data collected from the OpenGov Archive, covering public consultation comments up to July 2026.

- *OpenGov:* From July 2026 onward, data are collected from the new OpenGov platform, where consultation data are retrieved via the platform's API.
  The current version was initially collected through scraping and contains the newly available consultation comments, with minimal overlap with the legacy archive (IDs 1242, 3, 2 and 1).  From now on, the current dataset will be updated monthly by retrieving and adding newly published comments from the OpenGov platform.

The two versions are therefore maintained separately to preserve the distinction between the archived data and the continuously updated collection.

**archive_version**

The dataset **achive_version** was taken from `archive.opengov.gr`, the host where the platform now serves its consultations, and it was checked against the platform's own per-consultation comment counts. The corpus contains **1,252 consultations** spanning **2009–2026**, hosted by **36 different Greek ministries**, including their full set of **32,180 legislative articles**, **435,609 citizen comments**, and **2,410 supporting documents** (impact analyses, reports, accompanying drafts). The data was scraped from `opengov.gr` (served from `archive.opengov.gr`) between **2026-09-29** and **2026-10-01**.

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           | URL of the consultation on `opengov.gr` (as served, on the `archive.opengov.gr` host).             |
| `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           | URL of the article on `opengov.gr` (as served, on the `archive.opengov.gr` host).                  |
| `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`. |

**Dataset Statistics**

* Size: 222,00 MB
* Words: 100.578.090 (counted on all natural-language fields, whitespace-separated)
* Tokens: 135.126.310 (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.



**OpenGov**

The dataset **OpenGov** was taken from `https://www.opengov.gr/`

**Metadata Info**

| Field                                  | Type      | Description                            | Notes                                                                              |
| -------------------------------------- | --------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `consultation_id`                      | int64     | Internal row ID, 1–14                  | Not stable across files (v3 numbers differ)                                        |
| `post_id`                              | string    | opengov.gr post ID                     | Unique only within a ministry's site                                               |
| `url`                                  | string    | Consultation page                      | `opengov.gr/<ministry>/deliberations/<slug>/`                                      |
| `title`                                | string    | Consultation title                     |                                                                                    |
| `start_minister_message`               | string    | Ministry's opening announcement        |                                                                                    |
| `end_minister_message`                 | string    | Closing note                           | Empty string in 7 of 14 rows                                                       |
| `start_date` / `end_date`              | timestamp | Consultation window                    | Most likely Greek local time                                                       |
| `scraped_at`                           | timestamp | When the row was collected             | All on 2026-10-05                                                                  |
| `ministry.ministry_id`                 | int64     | Internal ministry ID                   |                                                                                    |
| `ministry.code`                        | string    | Site slug, e.g. `ypen`, `moh`          |                                                                                    |
| `ministry.name`                        | string    | Full ministry name                     |                                                                                    |
| `ministry.url`                         | string    | Ministry's opengov site                |                                                                                    |
| `articles[].article_id`                | int64     | Article ID                             |                                                                                    |
| `articles[].title`                     | string    | Article heading, e.g. «Άρθρο 1 Σκοπός» |                                                                                    |
| `articles[].url`                       | string    | Article page                           | **Null in all 724 articles**                                                       |
| `articles[].body_text`                 | string    | Article text                           | Some rows hold whole documents (IDs 1–4)                                           |
| `articles[].comments[].comment_row_id` | int64     | Comment ID                             |                                                                                    |
| `articles[].comments[].content`        | string    | Comment text                           | No commenter name stored                                                           |
| `articles[].comments[].date`           | timestamp | Comment timestamp                      |                                                                                    |
| `documents[].document_id`              | int64     | Document ID                            |                                                                                    |
| `documents[].title`                    | string    | Document title                         |                                                                                    |
| `documents[].url`                      | string    | PDF link                               | Text not included                                                                  |
| `documents[].type`                     | string    | Document type                          | `law_draft`, `analysis`, `deliberation_report`, `other`                            |


**Dataset Statistics**

Words: 1,406,597

Tokens: 2,160,739

**TOTAL TOKENS: 137,287,049**

**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*, 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

**Gated Access**

This dataset is distributed through Hugging Face's gated access mechanism. To request access, please provide a brief description of your project and, where applicable, a project, repository, or company URL.

By requesting access to this dataset,you acknowledge that the dataset maintainers may contact you regarding your access request and matters directly related to the administration, maintenance, security, responsible use, and licensing of the dataset, where necessary and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.