[okfn-za] Openbylaws.org.za: SA's by-laws made easy to read and share

[Adi Eyal]

Hi Greg

Well done on the good work. Converting to Akoma Ntoso seems like quite some
work. Do you do it by hand or do you use an authoring tool? I came across
at4am.org which is an amendment tool for laws used in the European
parliament.  Not sure if it is useful.

With regards to openbylaws.org.za, do you have a list of bylaws still to be
xml-ed? I'm happy to take a shot at contributing if you could talk me
through it (or write a quick howto guide).

Finally, apart from being a good thing,  how do you see this being  used? I
like the idea of hyperlinking to a section. I'm guessing that's the main
value.

Well done again for the initiative.

Adi
On 14 Oct 2013 1:54 PM, "Greg Kempe" <gregkempe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been working on a side project to help make South Africa's by-laws
> easier to read and share.
>
>   http://openbylaws.org.za/
>
> I have started with Cape Town and have 14 of about 35 by-laws
> available. I've take the PDF forms of the by-laws and transformed them into
> HTML. You can easily share links to sections, get an overview of the laws
> from the table of contents, and view inline term definitions.
>
> In addition, the documents themselves are available in XML (using the
> Akoma Ntoso schema) under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
>
> *I'd love your input! *Thoughts, suggestions, contributions welcome.
>
> If you or someone you know often needs access to South Africa's by-laws,
> please get in touch and let me know what's missing.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
>
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