How Poliscope Made All of Germany's Local Politics Searchable on One Server with Qdrant

Poliscope makes Germany’s local political data searchable in one place. Germany has about 11,000 municipalities, and almost every one of them publishes through a council information system (in German, a Ratsinformationssystem). That is where agendas, minutes, proposals, and planning documents get published. Many portals serve several municipalities at once, so Poliscope’s roughly 4,800 active portals cover about 90% of German municipalities and 98% of the population. They run on roughly a dozen software products, each with its own quirks, and none of them talk to each other.