This dataset is a structured snapshot of the Greek government's public e-consultation platform [OpenGov.gr] (https://www.opengov.gr) - the official portal where Greek ministries publish draft legislation and policy initiatives for article-by-article public commentary before they are tabled in the Hellenic Parliament. Each consultation typically covers a single bill or policy proposal and is opened for a fixed window during which citizens, civil-society organizations, professional bodies, and other stakeholders submit substantive comments.

Repository Updates and Versioning

The repository is divided into two versions based on the source website and data collection method:

archive_version: Data collected from the OpenGov Archive, covering public consultation comments up to July 2026.
OpenGov: From July 2026 onward, data are collected from the new OpenGov platform, where consultation data are retrieved via the platform's API. The current version was initially collected through scraping and contains the newly available consultation comments, with minimal overlap with the legacy archive (IDs 1242, 3, 2 and 1). From now on, the current dataset will be updated monthly by retrieving and adding newly published comments from the OpenGov platform.

The two versions are therefore maintained separately to preserve the distinction between the archived data and the continuously updated collection.

archive_version

The dataset achive_version was taken from archive.opengov.gr, the host where the platform now serves its consultations, and it was checked against the platform's own per-consultation comment counts. The corpus contains 1,252 consultations spanning 2009–2026, hosted by 36 different Greek ministries, including their full set of 32,180 legislative articles, 435,609 citizen comments, and 2,410 supporting documents (impact analyses, reports, accompanying drafts). The data was scraped from opengov.gr (served from archive.opengov.gr) between 2026-09-29 and 2026-10-01.

The structure preserves the document hierarchy of an actual consultation:

A consultation corresponds to a single piece of draft legislation or policy proposal posted by a ministry.
Each consultation contains an ordered list of articles (άρθρα) of the draft.
Each article contains an ordered list of comments submitted by citizens or organizations on that specific article.
Each consultation can also contain associated documents (e.g. impact assessments, accompanying analyses, deliberation reports).

This shape makes the dataset suitable for both consultation-level analysis (legislative scope, ministry coverage, comment volume) and fine-grained NLP research over the actual textual content of the laws and the public reactions they elicited.

Metadata Info

The parquet has one row per consultation. The full schema, including nested lists, is:

Path	Type	Description
`consultation_id`	int64	Internal numeric primary key for the consultation.
`post_id`	string	WordPress post id assigned by `opengov.gr`.
`url`	string	URL of the consultation on `opengov.gr` (as served, on the `archive.opengov.gr` host).
`title`	string	Title of the consultation (typically the title of the draft law / policy initiative).
`start_minister_message`	string	Opening message of the responsible minister introducing the consultation.
`end_minister_message`	string	Closing message of the minister published after the consultation period (may be empty).
`start_date`	timestamp[us]	Date/time the consultation was opened to the public.
`end_date`	timestamp[us]	Date/time the consultation was closed.
`scraped_at`	timestamp[us]	Date/time this consultation was fetched from `opengov.gr` (per-row scrape provenance).
`ministry`	struct	Information about the originating ministry.
`ministry.ministry_id`	int64	Internal numeric id of the ministry.
`ministry.code`	string	Short code used in `opengov.gr` URLs (e.g. `minenv`, `minfin`).
`ministry.name`	string	Official name of the ministry in Greek.
`ministry.url`	string	URL of the ministry's section on `opengov.gr`.
`articles`	list	Ordered list of legislative articles included in the draft under consultation.
`articles[].article_id`	int64	Internal id of the article.
`articles[].title`	string	Article heading as published.
`articles[].url`	string	URL of the article on `opengov.gr` (as served, on the `archive.opengov.gr` host).
`articles[].body_text`	string	Plain-text body of the article (extracted from the original HTML, NFC-normalized).
`articles[].comments`	list	Ordered list of citizen / organization comments on this specific article.
`articles[].comments[].comment_row_id`	int64	Globally unique primary key for each comment.
`articles[].comments[].content`	string	Plain-text content of the comment (NFC-normalized).
`articles[].comments[].date`	timestamp[us]	Submission date/time of the comment.
`documents`	list	Ordered list of supporting documents attached to the consultation.
`documents[].document_id`	int64	Internal id of the document.
`documents[].title`	string	Title of the document.
`documents[].url`	string	URL of the document on `opengov.gr`.
`documents[].type`	string	Document type, one of `law_draft`, `analysis`, `other_draft`, `other_report`, `deliberation_report`, `other`.

Dataset Statistics

Size: 222,00 MB
Words: 100.578.090 (counted on all natural-language fields, whitespace-separated)
Tokens: 135.126.310 (counted on all natural-language fields with the nlpaueb/bert-base-greek-uncased-v1 WordPiece tokenizer, no special tokens, no truncation)

The fields included in the word/token count are: title, start_minister_message, end_minister_message, ministry.name, articles[].title, articles[].body_text, articles[].comments[].content, documents[].title. Identifiers, URLs, timestamps, and short categorical fields (ministry.code, documents[].type) are excluded.

OpenGov

The dataset OpenGov was taken from https://www.opengov.gr/

Metadata Info

Field	Type	Description	Notes
`consultation_id`	int64	Internal row ID, 1–14	Not stable across files (v3 numbers differ)
`post_id`	string	opengov.gr post ID	Unique only within a ministry's site
`url`	string	Consultation page	`opengov.gr/<ministry>/deliberations/<slug>/`
`title`	string	Consultation title
`start_minister_message`	string	Ministry's opening announcement
`end_minister_message`	string	Closing note	Empty string in 7 of 14 rows
`start_date` / `end_date`	timestamp	Consultation window	Most likely Greek local time
`scraped_at`	timestamp	When the row was collected	All on 2026-10-05
`ministry.ministry_id`	int64	Internal ministry ID
`ministry.code`	string	Site slug, e.g. `ypen`, `moh`
`ministry.name`	string	Full ministry name
`ministry.url`	string	Ministry's opengov site
`articles[].article_id`	int64	Article ID
`articles[].title`	string	Article heading, e.g. «Άρθρο 1 Σκοπός»
`articles[].url`	string	Article page	Null in all 724 articles
`articles[].body_text`	string	Article text	Some rows hold whole documents (IDs 1–4)
`articles[].comments[].comment_row_id`	int64	Comment ID
`articles[].comments[].content`	string	Comment text	No commenter name stored
`articles[].comments[].date`	timestamp	Comment timestamp
`documents[].document_id`	int64	Document ID
`documents[].title`	string	Document title
`documents[].url`	string	PDF link	Text not included
`documents[].type`	string	Document type	`law_draft`, `analysis`, `deliberation_report`, `other`

Dataset Statistics

Words: 1,406,597 Tokens: 2,160,739

TOTAL TOKENS: 137,287,049

Usage

This dataset is useful for:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks for Modern Greek, especially in the legal and legislative register
Argument mining, opinion analysis, and stance detection on civic-participation data
Summarization, retrieval, and question answering over draft Greek legislation
Civic-tech applications: tracking legislative activity, citizen engagement metrics, ministry-level analyses
Building Greek language models, lexicons, or domain-adapted embeddings for the legal/policy domain
Sociolinguistic and political-science research on Greek public deliberation 2009–2026

The text in articles[].body_text is extracted from the original HTML on opengov.gr via plain-text stripping and is whitespace- and unicode-normalized; users who require the original HTML formatting should refer back to the source URLs (articles[].url). Comment text (articles[].comments[].content) is preserved as submitted by users on the platform, with usernames anonymized at source by opengov.gr.

License

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

The license is a forward-compatible upgrade of the CC BY 3.0 GR license under which opengov.gr itself releases its content. Per the official opengov.gr Terms of Use (operated by the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government - EKDDA): "Το συνολικό περιεχόμενο του παρόντος δικτυακού τόπου διατίθεται στο κοινό με τους ειδικότερους όρους της Ελληνικής άδειας Creative Commons Αναφορά Προέλευσης (CC BY v.3.0)...". Citizen comments are also released under Creative Commons by participation, per the opengov.gr Πλαίσιο Αρχών. This is consistent with Greek Law 4727/2020 (art. 66) and EU Directive 2019/1024 on the re-use of public sector information.

When using this dataset, please attribute:

OpenGov, glossAPI (EELLAK), derived from the OpenGov.gr platform of the Hellenic Republic / National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Contact

For feedback contact: glossapi.team@eellak.gr

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