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Project curently in devellopment.

Why

The Swiss governement publishes daily lots of information scattered on the internet (newsletters, sparql endpoints, RTS/SSR/RSI, APIs, ...). We aim to make it more accessible with RSS (and Atom).

RSS is a standard web feed (compatible with blogs, journals, YouTube and much more!) that you can access on a multitude of rss readers on all your device. For more information, see All about RSS.

Feeds

Title Description Source de fr it rm en
Federal initiatives New federal popular initiatives in the signature stage. LINDAS (See query) RSS Atom RSS Atom RSS Atom
Asian hornet sightings in Bern Weekly map of the sightings of the Asian Hornet (an invasive species see frelonasiatique.ch) in the Canton of Bern opendata.swiss RSS Atom RSS Atom RSS Atom RSS Atom RSS Atom

All the data is already public. We gather it with the following methods :

  • SPARQL requests
  • opendata.swiss API

AI Disclaimer

AI (ChatGPT 5.5 and Deepl) was used in this project for :

  • crafting the SPARQL requests (a language I had never heard of before this project)
  • minor debugging when alternative methods did not solve the problems.
  • German, Italian and Romansh translations.
  • help with Python libraries

All code was reviewed by a human.

Contributing

If you want to help this project, you can :

  • find new, open and interesting data for a new feed. (You can open an issue to request a feed). awesome-ogd-switzerland is a good start if you want to see which data is available.
  • create new feeds.
  • help with the translations. The goal would be to have feeds in English, French, German, Italian and Romansh. However, some data is only available in French, German and Italian. You are welcome to translate and/or verify translations. (See ./resspublica/translations.py.
  • help popularize RSS by talking to friends, family and more, opening blogs and requesting news outlets or other entities to have an rss option. Besides this project, I truely think RSS is a standard that could resolve multiples current issues (such as the problems of algorithimic social media).