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Legislative Metadata:What’s the Point?

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/

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