Legal Software: The Good Law Hackthon: 22 November 2014, London

vineri, 21 noiembrie 2014

The Good Law Hackthon: 22 November 2014, London

The Good Law Hackathon is being held 22 November at the UK Ministry of Justice in London.

I think John Sheridan of The National Archives is organizing the event.

The event appears to be associated with the UK Government’s Good Law Initiative.

Here is a description of the event, from the event’s eventbrite page:

Your chance to the hack the entire statute book

If you’ve ever wanted to hack the whole statute book, not just individual pieces of legislation, come along to the Good Law Hackathon. Our goal is to develop various hacks that measure the statute book in some way. Imagine creating a ‘census’ of the statute book!

When most people think of legislation they think of words not numbers, yet the simple act of counting can reveal a great deal about how we are governed. Imagine counting how many times a legally significant word or phrase occurs, or the use of powers, or the number of internal or external references in legislation. Imagine what it tells us – for example, when does legislation start to ‘wear out’?

We’d like you to hack ‘indices’ for some aspect of statute book – the things you’d like to have a go at counting. It’s just not been possible before – but we’ll provide all the data you’ll need.

Here are some of the datasets and tools you’ll be able to download and use:

As enacted legislative texts by type and year in HTML, XML and Akoma Ntosa XML

Revised current legislative texts by type and year in HTML, XML and Akoma Ntosa XML

Effects by legislation type and year in RDF/XML

The CLML Schema

XSLT for legislation.gov.uk XHTML

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Do you have questions about The Good Law Hackathon? Contact John Sheridan, The National Archives: http://ift.tt/145Wpqv

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