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Legislation
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Transparent legislation should be easy to read — part II
Over a decade ago, I wrote a blog questioning why federal bills are written the way they are. For someone experienced with state legislation, federal legislation is quite cryptic and…
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Mapping Amending Language to Akoma Ntoso Modifications
In my last blog, I talked about Xcential’s long history working with change management as it applies to legislation and my personal history working in the subject in other fields.…
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Legislative Terminology — The Same but Different
In my last blog, I covered a lot of the variations I find around the world. I do a lot of document analysis, working to map various legislative traditions into…
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Comparing DOCX to Akoma Ntoso for Legislation
After describing what makes for good legislative XML, I feel I should bring up a favorite topic of mine — why word processors don’t make for good legislative drafting tools.…
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What is Good Legislative XML?
I’m often asked what make on XML model better than another when it comes to representing laws and regulations. Just because a document is modeled in XML does not mean…
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Twenty Years in Legal Informatics!
Today marks my twentieth year in the field of legal informatics. It was January 4th, 2002 that we officially started Xcential. The following week, Brad and I flew up to…
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Moving on Up to Document Synthesis
In my last blog, I discussed the DIKW pyramid and how the CAD world has advanced through the layers while the legal profession was going much slower. I mentioned that…
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The Knowledge Pyramid
At the very start of my career at the Boeing Company, my boss Jerry introduced the Knowledge Pyramid the DIKW Pyramid to me one evening. I had an insatiable thirst…
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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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Can GitHub be used to manage legislation?
Every so often, someone suggests that GitHub would be a great way to manage legislation. Usually, we roll our eyes at the naïve suggestion and that is that. However, there…
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Data Transparency Breakfast, LEX US Summer School 2015, First International Akoma Ntoso Conference, and LegisPro Edit reveal.
Last week was a very good week for my company, Xcential. We started the week hosting a breakfast put on by the Data Transparency Coalition at the Booz Allen Hamilton facility…
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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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And now for something completely different… Chinese!
Last week we saw how Akoma Ntoso can be applied to a very large consolidated Code – the United States Code. This week we take the challenge in a different…
