«Hack Apertus» - Challenge info session: OpenParlData

​OpenParlData — Structuring Parliamentary Data

​Hoi and welcome to "Hack Apertus"!

​Join us for a live introduction to one of the "Hack Apertus" challenges, brought by OpenParlData (Opendata.ch / Glue AG).

​Switzerland has parliaments at three levels — federal, 26 cantonal, and hundreds of municipal — but no shared, machine-readable format that makes their affairs comparable. This challenge is about designing a structured representation for parliamentary affairs and building an Apertus-driven pipeline that produces it from real parliamentary PDFs.

​In this session:

• ​a walkthrough of the challenge and dataset,

• ​what a strong submission looks like

• ​and a live Q&A with the challenge provider.

​Speaker:
Christian Gutknecht, OpenParlData / Glue AG.

​📅 Date & Time: 02.10.2026, 14:30-15:15
⏱️ Duration: 45 minutes
🌐 Language: English
🗣️ Format: 20 min. presentation + 25 min. Q&A
📍 Location: Live on Zoom, YT
👥 Target group: Hackers taking part in "Hack Apertus" Online Hackathon considering this challenge

​This session is part of stage 1, the Online Hackathon (1.–16.10.2026).
«Hack Apertus» is supported by its Main Partners Phoeniqs, CSCS, Canton St.Gallen, Innosuisse, Supertext, Canton Bern, BaselTech, and Wikimedia CH.