LinkedLegislation Blog

The elements are aligning for a major transformation in how governments publish laws. Open data and open government go hand-in-hand and one significant benefit of this pairing is that the accelerated pace of technology can pull open government forward faster than it would otherwise move. Earlier this week, President Obama... [Read More]

At tax26.com, we are trying to push the envelope of digitization of primary tax law. Early on, we worked to convert references in documents to other parts of the law, regulations, etc. This gets us closer to a digital linked data set, but anyone who has looked at legal citations... [Read More]

With the announcement of the new iPad 4   3 (including in this hilarious Onion article: This Article Generating Thousands of Dollars in Ad Revenue), it's a good time to think about the tremendous gap between the promise of digitization and the widespread adoption of digital technology for different media.A recurring... [Read More]

The National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina Olson, has a posse.  And for good reason. I attended the American Bar Association Tax Section mid-year meeting in San Diego last week and had the opportunity to hear Olson speak.  She wields statistics, legal provisions and specific taxpayer examples to show how the IRS has... [Read More]

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]