http://www.lipad.ca/
This is what the creators are saying about this amazing project:
"The transcript of Parliamentary Debates (“Hansard”) is a 150-year running record of Canadian political history. This richness presents political historians with a needle-in-a-haystack problem of an enormous magnitude. At a rate of a novel’s worth of reading each day, it would take 27 years to read the 680 million words of Hansard. It would take a further 6 years to read what was added in the interim.
In
2013, a group of political scientists, computer scientists, and
historians teamed up at the University of Toronto to solve this problem.
With support from the SSHRC, the NSERC, the Digging into Data
initiative, the Library of Parliament, Library and Archives Canada, Canadiana.org, and Michael Mulley at openparliament.ca,
a key output of this collaboration is the first machine-readable and
fully searchable historical Hansard. We have linked to these data to
various biographical properties of parliamentarians, including their
party and gender. This corpus underpins the search interface of this
website.
We are
continuously expanding this corpus and features on this website. We are
adding the Debates of the Senate and the transcripts of parliamentary
committees. We are also integrating more and more information about
parliamentarians, including information about the demographic profiles
and election outcomes in their constituencies. To request data or for
information about how to get involved in this project, please contact us.
A full description of our project in a published article for citation purposes is forthcoming."
