luni, 24 februarie 2014

Legal data and projects worked on at Open Data Day 2014: Links and resources

Several legal data sets and projects were worked on at Open Data Day 2014 (also called the International Open Data Hackathon, and Open Data Day Hackathon) , held 22-23 February 2014, at many locations around the world.


The main event Website is at http://opendataday.org/


The Website for the Washington, DC event is at http://ift.tt/125SOWS


There appear to be several Twitter hashtags for the event, including:



A map of locations/events is at http://ift.tt/1eFenlb


For the DC event, IRC chat took place at: http://ift.tt/w3RUwg #opendatadaydc


The wiki listing locations, projects, and datasets is at http://ift.tt/10xFqtU


Projects and datasets worked on at the DC event are listed at the hackpad at http://ift.tt/1ddoDxj


Here are the legal data and projects worked on at the events, that I’ve been able to identify (if you know of others, please feel free to identify them in the comments to this post):


CRS Report Freshness Ratings



  • Location: Washington, DC

  • Participant: Daniel Schuman

  • Goal: “CRS reports should have freshness ratings based on a comparison of the current text to the previous iteration.”


dcca: Scrape the DC Court of Appeals for use in Courtlistener



  • Location: Washington, DC

  • Participant: V. David Zvenyach

  • Goal:“use the CourtListener scraper framework to get the DC Court of Appeals fully plugged in.”

  • Result: “700+ DCCA opinions loaded to github.”

  • Link: http://ift.tt/MT8k2t


DC Municipal Regulations Conversion



  • Location: Washington, DC

  • Participants: Chris Birk, Bill Hunt, Leili Slutz, Matt Steinberg, Keith Porcaro

  • Goal: “scrape the municipal regulations of D.C. from dcregs.dc.gov and convert them to the formats described for the StateDecoded and the DC Code prototype”

  • Result: “We were able to get most (~98%) of the regulations imported to some degree.”

  • Links:





Index of the ease of access to regulations from World Bank data



NeoCodex Open Law Challenge



  • Location: London, England, UK

  • Goals: “brainstorm crowdsourcing methods for data acquisition and refinement [regarding court decisions] which can work at an international/transnational level”, and “Help us come up with ideas for visualising the impact of the law via social media and geo-hacking”

  • Link: http://ift.tt/MT8kiI


StateDecoded Global Law Search and Compare



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