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

Tue Oct 15 08:08:30 UTC 2013

That's amazing, Greg. I wonder if one could train city lawyers to do this
from the beginning?

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

Fantastic Greg! Would you be up for drafting a short blog piece giving an
intro to the idea and status for http://za.okfn.org/ ?

Rufus

On 14 October 2013 12:48, 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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