Meeting

Label Meeting

Description

A meeting is a seating of the Parliament during a Session in which Disussions are held.

Attributes

• identifier uid: integer

  Unique identifier of this object.

• datetime: local_date_time

  Date and time of the start of the meeting.

• meeting_number: integer

  Number indicating the meeting’s place in a session.

• order_stamp: integer

  Number indicating the meeting’s place in chain of meeting nodes related with NEXT relations.

Connected relations

Outgoing

• CONTAINS to Discussion

• DURING to Legislative Period

• DURING to Session

• DURING to Year

• NEXT to Meeting

• TAKES_PLACE_IN to Chamber

Incoming

• NEXT from Meeting

Constraints

• A Meeting must contain the attributes ‘datetime’, ‘meeting_number’, ‘order_stamp’
• All discussions in a meeting must have the correct order_stamp_in_meeting and must be correctly connected by a NEXT_IN_MEETING relation. If the order and the time missmatch, the node must be labeled as a “Inconsistent Timestamp”.
• A Meeting must follow a defined structure:
  • It must be connected to one and only one Legislative Period with exactly one DURING relation
  • It must be connected to one and only one Year with exactly one DURING relation
  • It must be connected to one and only one Session with exactly one DURING relation
  • It must be connected to one and only one Chamber with exactly one TAKES_PLACE_IN relation

Visual Representation