Module: News Backport Generation - Historical Article Migration System

Automated legacy article generation system creating historical news coverage for past dates by querying the riksdag-regering-mcp (MCP) client for parliamentary activities, government actions, and committee developments. Enables comprehensive historical intelligence archive for retrospective analysis and trend identification.

Operational Context: Generates news articles for historical date ranges by querying publicly available parliamentary data. Creates weekly week-ahead articles and daily articles for dates lacking coverage. Supports intelligence platform's requirement for comprehensive historical context when analyzing political developments.

Historical Data Sourcing:

• Queries riksdag-regering-mcp (Riksdag-Regering MCP server) for past dates
• Retrieves: propositions (propositioner), motions (motioner), committee reports (betänkanden)
• Accesses: written questions, interpellations, voting records, calendar events
• All data sourced from public Swedish government APIs (riksdagen.se, regeringen.se)

Article Generation Modes:

• Weekly mode: Generates "week-ahead" prospective articles for Mondays
• Daily mode: Generates individual daily activity summaries
• Committee-focused: Highlights committee activities and reports
• Proposition tracking: Legislative bill introduction and status updates
• Motion monitoring: Parliament member initiatives and amendments

Date Range Flexibility:

• Accepts configurable --from and --to date parameters
• Supports backfilling of specific date gaps
• Default range: 2026-01-01 to current date
• CLI examples: node scripts/generate-news-backport.js --from=2026-01-01 --to=2026-02-10 node scripts/generate-news-backport.js --from=2026-01-01 --to=2026-02-10 --mode=weekly node scripts/generate-news-backport.js --from=2026-01-01 --to=2026-02-10 --languages=all

Multi-Language Generation:

• Generates articles for all 14 languages or specified subset
• Supports language codes: en, sv, da, no, fi, de, fr, es, nl, ar, he, ja, ko, zh
• Uses automated translation or language-specific templates
• Maintains terminology consistency across language variants

Content Generation Workflow:

• Fetches parliamentary data from MCP server for date range
• Extracts: watch points, key decisions, committee reports, voting patterns
• Generates article metadata: title, summary, category, author attribution
• Creates HTML content with proper markup and links
• Applies data-transformers.js for content enhancement
• Generates article-template.js formatted output
• Produces valid HTML with proper meta tags and structured data

Data Transformation Pipeline:

• generateArticleContent(): Creates article narrative from parliamentary data
• extractWatchPoints(): Identifies significant developments to monitor
• generateMetadata(): Creates article frontmatter with publication metadata
• calculateReadTime(): Estimates reading duration for accessibility
• generateSources(): Documents data sources for transparency/OSINT audit

Intelligence Integration:

• Enables trend analysis across historical date ranges
• Supports pattern identification in parliamentary activity
• Facilitates identification of policy shift timing
• Documents decision-making chronology for case studies
• Maintains comprehensive intelligence archive

Rate Limiting & Performance:

• Configurable delay (--delay parameter, default 2000ms) between MCP calls
• Prevents MCP server overload during bulk generation
• Dry-run mode (--dry-run flag) for validation without file output
• Progress reporting and error summarization

Output Structure:

• Generated files: news/article_{slug}_{lang}.html
• Includes article metadata, body content, references
• JSON-LD structured data for search engines
• Open Graph tags for social media sharing
• Proper language attributes for multi-language support

Error Handling:

• Validates article data before generation
• Skips articles with insufficient data (graceful degradation)
• Reports skipped files and processing errors
• Maintains processing statistics and metrics

OSINT & Data Sourcing:

• All data from public Swedish government sources
• Complies with Offentlighetsprincipen (public access principle)
• Proper attribution of government sources
• Audit trail of information sources

Usage Examples: node scripts/generate-news-backport.js --from=2026-01-01 --to=2026-02-10 node scripts/generate-news-backport.js --from=2026-01-01 --to=2026-02-10 --types=week-ahead node scripts/generate-news-backport.js --from=2026-01-01 --to=2026-02-10 --languages=all --dry-run node scripts/generate-news-backport.js --from=2026-01-01 --to=2026-02-10 --mode=weekly

ISMS Compliance:

• ISO 27001:2022 A.5.33 - Protection of records (audit trail of data sources)
• ISO 27001:2022 A.12.1.1 - Change management (version control of articles)
• NIST CSF 2.0 RC.IM-2 (incident management and reporting)

Data Protection:

• Processes only public government data
• GDPR Article 6(1)(e) - Public interest processing
• No personal data in generated articles (politicians only in official capacity)
• Complies with transparency principles