Living Topics: Show the pulse of what the Swiss Government is working on, by combining up-to-date terminology databases with texts published by the Government.

Words, phrases, and terms in a governmental context have one special feature: As they often relate to legal concepts and are the base of far-reaching decisions, standing terms (also called “named entities” in computer science) need to be well defined, often by a legal base. To be able to work with this domain-specific vocabularies, these standing terms are organized in terminology databases and can be accessed through TermDat (BkTermdatUi ). The goal of this challenge is to harness the expressivity and freshness of the terminologies provided by TermDat to create a high-quality map of what topics the Swiss Government is currently working on.

"The Swiss Confederation currently has almost 40k employees (~36k full time equivalents). It is not only difficult for the citizens of Switzerland to grasp the breadth and depth of which topics are worked on, the same is valid for the employees within the Swiss Confederation. Therefore, it is important to have a good high-quality overview of the ongoing work and the change of focus in regard of ongoing themes globally. Conversely, the specialists working on the terminology database are not able to read all new texts being published every day and would welcome a tool which would allow them to harvest newly coined terms or terms being used in a new context or with a different translation. Finally, end-users of texts might want to be able to click on a given (technical) word and receive a definition of that word."

Organization: BK Federal Chancellery