parse-abd-nieuws

What problem does it solve?

Dutch government appointment news from the Algemene Bestuursdienst (ABD) is published as unstructured HTML, making it slow and error-prone to manually extract structured data for open government datasets like Polder. This skill automates that parsing process to turn raw ABD news articles into ready-to-use structured records.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Structured Proposal Generation: Parses ABD news HTML into Polder-compliant Membership-proposal objects with all required fields including person names, organizational hierarchies, role titles, dates and evidence snippets.
• Multi-Event Type Support: Handles appointments, resignations, contract extensions and obituaries, with tailored logic for each event type including automatic mandate closure for obituaries.
• Confidence Scoring: Assigns evidence-based confidence scores to each proposal based on explicit fact presence and external verification sources, with clear reasoning for review workflows.
• Use Case: A Polder dataset maintainer can process a new ABD news article in seconds to generate a validated, merge-ready proposal instead of spending minutes on manual data entry and validation.

Quick Start

Use the parse-abd-nieuws skill to process the ABD news HTML file at _cache/abd-nieuws/2026-05-09-marleen-heijster.html and output the structured membership proposals.