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A repository for metadata on politicians who participate in the Riksdag.
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Different start/end dates for MPs in the biographical books and in matriklar #7

Closed fredrik1984 closed 4 months ago

fredrik1984 commented 5 months ago

According to Jan Teorell, there seems to be a problem with different MP start/end dates, which causes duplicate MPs on the same chair. Again, according to Jan, this could be because Swerik has used start/end dates from the biographical books, and the chair project from matriklarna.

This is not a big issue for the Swerik project but it is worth taking a look at it at some point.

@BobBorges do you have any take on this?

BobBorges commented 5 months ago

In the data set I generated for them, there are both dates if there is a discrepancy between wikidata (assuming it's the same as in bio-books) info and martriklar. The tests run on the wikidata dates for consistency with the rest of the SWERIK project. If we want to resolve this properly, I guess we would need to double check dates with discrepancies and/or find a third source to verify before making edits to info that's on wikidata.

fredrik1984 commented 5 months ago

Ok, good to know. I don't think this is a pressing issue, and I think this is work for the chair project

BobBorges commented 4 months ago

Closing this -- no task.