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

Tue Oct 15 03:51:21 UTC 2013

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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