Contribution to Open Gov West (OGW) 2011 panel: "Creating Open, Accessible, Low-Cost Documents," 13 May 2011, Portland, Oregon. Moderator: Sarah Schacht
Bruce, T. R., and Richards, R. C. (2011). Adapting Specialized Legal Metadata...
Legislative Metadata: What's the Point?
1. Robert Richards, J.D., M.S.L.I.S., M.A. Ph.D. Student University of Washington Department of Communication Legalinformatics.wordpress.com/about/ Contribution to Panel: “Creating Open, Accessible, Low-Cost Documents” OGW 2011: Open Gov West 13 May 2011, Portland, Oregon Legislative Metadata:What’s the Point?
2. Legislative Metadata: What’s the Point? 1. Transparency LII: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ Legislation.gov.uk: http://tinyurl.com/3afyuet Visualizations: Timelines Mashability for Accountability: Statutes in RDF OpenCongress: http://www.opencongress.org/ OpenGovernment: http://www.opengovernment.org/ 2. Civic Engagement POPVOX: https://www.popvox.com/ LexPop: http://lexpop.org/ Living Voters’ Guide: http://www.livingvotersguide.org/
3. Legislative Metadata: What’s the Point? 3. Machine-to-Machine Systems Self-Updating Public Administration Systems: Project AGILE: http://tinyurl.com/44nnmrv Private Sector Compliance Systems: TR ONESOURCE: http://onesource.thomsonreuters.com/ Identifiers & Resolvers: URN:LEX: http://tinyurl.com/43laeyh The Legal Semantic Web: Legislation.gov.uk’s Linked Data: http://tinyurl.com/3afyuet 4. Innovation Yet to Come Law.Gov: http://tinyurl.com/yab7p3e Framework: Robinson et al., Government Data & the Invisible Hand: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1138083