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The many lives of JavaScript
I recently worked out that I’ve learned, on average, a new programming language every two to three years. These many languages have been part of my toolbox for somewhere between…
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Connected Information
As a proponent of XML for legislation, I’m often asked why an XML approach is better than a more traditional approach using a word processor. The answer is simple –…
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Achieving Five Star Open Data
A couple weeks ago, I was in Ravenna, Italy at the LEX Summer School and follow-on Developer’s Workshop. There, the topic of a semantic web came up a lot. Despite…
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Building a browser-based XML Editor
Don’t forget the 2014 U.S. House Legislative Data and Transparency Conference this week. I’m now hard at work on our second generation web-based XML editor. In my blog last week,…
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Legal Citations and XML Editing for Legislation
It’s been quite some time since my last blog post – almost six months. The reason is that I’ve been very busy. We are doing a lot of exciting development…
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Free Akoma Ntoso Validator
How are people doing with the Library of Congress’ Akoma Ntoso Challenge? Hopefully, you’re making good progress, having fun doing it, and in so doing, learning a valuable new skill…
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XML, HTML, JSON – Choosing the Right Format for Legislative Text
I find I’m often talking about an information model and XML as if they’re the same thing. However, there is no reason to tie these two things together as one.…
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Automating Legal References in Legislation
This is a blog I have wanted to write for quite some time. It addresses what I believe to be the single most important issue when modeling information for legal…
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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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Why Not Build a Legislative Editor out of Google Docs?
Ever since I started working on my legislative editor (http://legalhacks.org/editor), I’ve been asked over and over if I was using Google Docs, and if not, why not. So to answer…
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A Pluggable XML Editor
Ever since I announced my HTML5-based XML editor, I’ve been getting all sorts of requests for a variety of implementations. While the focus has been, and continues to be, providing…
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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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What is a Semantic Web?
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, defines a semantic web quite simply as “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines“. In my…
