Legis Info · Topic
Hackathon
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Sheldon’s Roommate Agreement – in Akoma Ntoso
A Legal Open Document Hackathon was held yesterday at the University of Bologna in Italy – focused on Akoma Ntoso documents. You can learn more about it here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c03pd1llrcvg7d0t0fj5sh41cbk http://codexml.cirsfid.unibo.it/material-for-legal-open-document-dec-10/…
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Update on our Web-based Legislative Editor
It’s been a while since my last blog post. I’ve been busy working on a number of activities. As a result, I have a lot of news to announce regarding…
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Unhackathon Wrapup
Well, we had our “unhackathon” and it was, overall, a great success. We learned a lot, introduced a lot of people to the notion of XML markup and Akoma Ntoso,…
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An Interesting Idea for how to Rethink How we are Governed
This past weekend I came across this interesting block by Abe Voelker. GitLaw: GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents – a Tourniquet for American Liberty. The reaction he got was…
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An HTML5-Based XML Editor for Legislation!
UPDATE: (May 17, 2012) For all the people that asked for more editing capabilities, I have updated the editor to provide rudimentary cut/copy/paste capabilities via the normal shortcut keys. More…
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Building a Web-Based Legislative Editor
I built the legislative drafting tool used by the Office of the Legislative Counsel in California. It was a long and arduous process and took several years to complete. Issues…
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Toward’s more Affordable Solutions in Legal Informatics – with Standards
Got six million dollars? That’s the ballpark figure for a complete legislative system and it is too much. A decade ago when the technologies were still new, the risks were…
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International Open Standards Hackathon
An international open standard for legislative documents will be an important next step for making legislative information available to the people. An open standard will promote the creation of tools…
