OpenCouncil: Greek Municipal Council Meeting Transcripts and Decisions

OpenCouncil is a structured dataset of Greek municipal council proceedings, containing meeting transcripts, agendas, decisions, speakers, discussion topics, and voting outcomes. The dataset is generated from publicly available council meetings using automated transcription, speaker identification, topic segmentation, and human verification workflows. It was created by glossAPI and last updated on 2026-06-10.

Use Cases

• Train speaker identification models based on the speaker metadata mentioned in the description.
• Analyze topic segmentation in political discourse based on the described discussion topics.
• Study voting outcomes and decision-making patterns based on the described voting data.
• Perform full-text search and information retrieval on council meeting transcripts.
• Conduct sentiment or argumentation analysis on public deliberation transcripts.

Strengths

• Includes structured metadata such as agendas, decisions, speakers, and voting outcomes.
• Data generation involves a multi-step workflow combining automated processing with human verification.
• Covers local government bodies across Greece, suggesting geographic diversity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file formats, and license are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-06-10).

Provenance

Source

glossAPI

Collection Method

Generated from publicly available council meetings using automated transcription, speaker identification, topic segmentation, and human verification.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-10 08:50:46.

Geography

Local government bodies across Greece.