A knowledge base of public acts based on the grammar of the Official Gazette

Many sources and the growing volume of data lead to a need for new models of information management. One of the most important sources fonts are the records published in the Official Gazettes and their extraction, as well as their corresponding interpretation, represents an interesting opportunity to provide govern transparency. Usually, these Official Gazettes are available in a closed format, which makes them difficult to process and inspect. This paper presents a proposal for extracting these public data by regular expression techniques. As a result, it promotes public transparency and possibly aids government decision-making process by building a public knowledge base driven by the grammar and entities of the Official Gazettes. The scope was limited to publications involving personnel movements in the last 9 years. The result was an RDF knowledge base of public acts available for SPARQL queries.