Mangiafico wins first Law Library of Congress legislative data challenge: Markup of U.S. Legislation in Akoma Ntoso

Jim Mangiafico has won the first Law Library of Congress legislative data challenge, Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso , according to a new post by Tina Gheen.

Mangiafico’s submission is entitled Four U.S. Legislative Documents in Akoma Ntoso .

Tina Gheen writes: “The judges were particularly impressed by the complexity of his application of the metadata section of Akoma Ntoso to the bill text and the submission’s cascading style sheet.”

Here is a summary of the competition from the challenge Website:

The Library of Congress is sponsoring a set of legislative data challenges to advance the development of international data exchange standards for legislative data. These challenges are an initiative to encourage broad participation in the development and application of legislative data standards and to engage new communities in the use of legislative data. Goals of this initiative include:

• Enabling wider accessibility and more efficient exchange of the legislative data of the United States Congress,


• Encouraging the development of open standards that facilitate better integration, analysis, and interpretation of legislative data,


• Fostering the use of open source licensing for implementing legislative data standard.

The Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso Challenge invites competitors to create representations of selected US bills using the most recent Akoma Ntoso standard. This work will help identify gaps in the Akoma Ntoso framework or US bill text where data cannot be incorporated properly within the existing standard, and propose new domain specific metadata elements or possibly other solutions to overcome these challenges. [...]

The judges of the competition were Kirsten Gullickson of the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives; and Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani and Professor Dr. Fabio Vitali , both of the University of Bologna and both co-developers of Akoma Ntoso .

Click here for links to all of the other submissions.

For more details, please see the complete post.

HT @konklone

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