Creating an Enhanced Infrastructure of Parliamentary Archives for Better Democratic Transparency and Legislative Research ; Report on the OPTED forum in the European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium, 15 June 2022)

Abstract In this paper, we summarise the key findings of the forum “Data4Parliaments” Parliamentary Data for a Better Democracy, organised by the OPTED network at the European Parliament on 15 June 2022. The aim of the conference was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas related to sharing and analysing parliamentary text data between official archives and different user groups from the social sciences and the civil society.