Data source: FOI requests (Woo-besluiten)

[vanderburgt]

User Story

As a Bron user,
I want to access and search through completed Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and their attached documents published by governments (in Dutch: "Woo-besluiten"),
so that I can access valuable information and insights obtained through FOI requests and enhance my research and understanding of government activities.

Acceptance Criteria

1. The "Woo-besluiten" data source should be integrated into the product's search functionality, alongside existing data sources.
2. Users should be able to search for FOI requests and related documents within the "Woo-besluiten" data source.
3. Search results from the "Woo-besluiten" data source should be presented in a clear and user-friendly manner.
4. Users should be able to view detailed information about each FOI request, including request details, government entities involved, and related documents.
5. The "Woo-besluiten" data source should be available as a filter under the "more options" (in Dutch: "meer opties") section.
6. The data source should be regularly updated (daily?) to ensure the latest FOI requests and documents are available.
7. Search results should provide a link to the original FOI source.

Additional Information

• Possible data sources: Woogle, Open.overheid.nl, Woo-index.

Tasks

• Research different data sources and their structures to determine their suitability for Bron.
• Research methods for implementing the data sources into Bron.
• Test data quality and search performance.
• Design and implement the user interface for searching and viewing FOI requests from "Woo-besluiten."

[vanderburgt]

• Research Woogle dataset availability (download links and update frequency)
• Run partial import to test data

[breyten]

Woogle:

• Update frequency: daily (?) -- municipalities have number of documents so easy to check if something is updated so we can crawl the index more often if necessary.
• Type of data: json/pdf

Method of crawling:

• First crawl https://woogle.wooverheid.nl/overview (json version of this page results in a timeout)
• Then get the nl.gm(\d+) codes and crawl the pages as follows: https://doi.wooverheid.nl/?doi=nl.gm0518&infobox=true
  • foi_files field points to resource, but they can be pretty much anything. Most common is pdf/html

[breyten]

Open.overheid.nl

• Only ministries, not municipalities

Method of crawling

• https://open.overheid.nl/zoekresultaten?informatiesoort=c_4f50ca9c&informatiesoort=c_1cf18f83
  • Detail pagina's op zoekresultaten crawlen
  • Vooral pdf bestanden