About EURVISTA
What it is, how it is funded, and the rules the evidence follows.
One corpus, assembled from six public registers
The European Union publishes an enormous amount about how its law is made. Procedure files, committee documents, roll-call votes, tabled amendments, declared lobbying meetings, consultation submissions, Council voting results, comitology acts and national transposition measures are all public. They are also spread across six registers that do not talk to each other, use different identifiers, and are built for record-keeping rather than for reading.
The practical result is that the record is open and unusable at the same time. Answering an ordinary question, who moved this provision, who has been in the room on this file, what normally happens next in a procedure of this type, means hours of manual work across several systems, and the answer is rarely citable when you get there.
EURVISTA joins those registers into one corpus on the identifiers the institutions themselves use, and puts a set of working surfaces on top of it: file pages, member profiles, organisation profiles, amendment maps, watchlists and briefs. Every figure resolves to the register entry it came from, with the date it was extracted.
Funded to be translated
Development is funded by the All-Ireland Research Council’s Translational Research Programme, which exists to move proven academic research into deployed products. That shapes the work: the methods were peer reviewed first, and the job now is to make them usable by people who do not have a research budget or a data science team.
Every dataset is collected directly from primary institutional sources. The platform holds no third-party licensed data, so nothing on it is subject to another company’s licence terms.
The rules the evidence follows
Policy intelligence is only useful if it survives scrutiny. These are enforced across the platform, not aspirations, and each one costs it capability on purpose.
- Bands, never scores
- Influence is shown as an ordinal band, backed by a string listing the recorded roles and outcomes behind the banding, with the formula versioned. We publish no numeric influence score, because false precision misleads.
- Base rates, never predictions
- Historical frequencies of recorded outcomes, always labelled with the cohort and period. The platform does not forecast votes, timelines or positions.
- Verbatim and attributed
- Third-party texts, including amendments, consultation submissions, speeches and answers, are reproduced as written and attributed to their authors. They are never paraphrased into our own words.
- Described, not asserted
- Organisations recorded on the same side of a consultation have aligned positions, not a coalition, because the record does not show co-ordination. A member’s subject focus is counted from the files they have held, and is never framed as expertise or as a position.
- Real and illustrative, strictly separated
- Anything badged Live data is a real extract from the data platform. Anything invented for demonstration carries an Illustrative badge and lives in a separate, clearly marked layer. The two never mix on a page without saying so.
- One click from the source
- Records link back to the primary institutional register they came from. Computed dates, such as objection deadlines, are marked as computed and never presented as official announcements.
- Nothing tracks you
- No cookies, no analytics scripts, no advertising or social pixels, no third-party requests of any kind. Fonts, scripts and images are served from our own machine.
Status
EURVISTA is in closed beta, available to an invited group while the platform is under development. Most of what it shows is real: the corpus, the file pages, the votes, the declared meetings and the monitoring surfaces all render live extracts. The natural-language answering layer is in development, and the worked example on the platform is marked illustrative for that reason.
Get in touch
For access, pilot enquiries, questions about the research, or anything to do with personal data held in the corpus.