LinkedLegislation Blog

Grant Vergottini has done it again.  He has converted the XML of the U.S. Code, published by the Law Revision Counsel, and converted it to a format (obscurely) called Akoma Ntoso, which is growing to be the basis for an international standard for legislation. (See his post here.)Standards for their own... [Read More]

I've put together a small demonstration site to convert pdfs to clean html: you can try it out here.  There are many caveats that go along with this (e.g. the current server is not very stable, it only works with javascript enabled browsers, only 5 documents at a time, limited... [Read More]

Many kudos to those who put together today's House Legislative Data & Transparency conference. I was impressed with the high-level and high-quality line-up of speakers and participants, and very grateful to the Committee on House Administration, which provided a livestreaming feed, and to all the Tweeters in the room and... [Read More]

The fourth of my structural recommendations for the U.S. House conference on legislative data and transparency (being held now), is to establish a consistent XML standard from publication of a bill to incorporation in the Code.I'll keep this one short, since others, particularly Jim Harper of the Cato Institute, have... [Read More]

Positive law codification is probably the most under-appreciated facet of legislative transparency.  It is hard work, and requires fighting against the the entropy of legislative history. But ultimately, any effort to create more accessible legislation, will be limited without positive law codification.The best description comes from the Office of Law... [Read More]