CitiLink-Minutes: A Multilayer Annotated Dataset of Municipal Meeting Minutes (v1.0.0)

It includes three annotation layers: **Metadata** (participants, location, date, meeting type), **subjects of discussion**, and **voting information** (subjects, positions, and outcomes). Data is provided in JSON format, one file per municipality.

The dataset supports research in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing applied to local governance transparency. **Access** The full dataset is available under a Data Use Agreement. To request access to this dataset please fill out the form (CitiLink-Minutes - Request Form) and send it to: **joao.a.castro@inesctec.pt** **License** creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The project´s GitHub Repository provides further documentation, annotation guidelines, and code for creating data subsets: github.com/inesctec/citilink-dataset **If you use this CitiLink-Minutes dataset, please use the following citation:** Campos, R., Pacheco, A. F., Fernandes, A. L., Cantante, I., Rebouças, R., José Isidro, Evans, J. P., Marques, M., Batista, R., Amorim, E., Jorge, A., Guimarães, N., Nunes, S., Leal, A., & Silvano, P. (2025).