[open-government] open-government Digest, Vol 25, Issue 30

Fri Mar 30 13:14:05 UTC 2012

Hi Ari,

This sounds very interesting. I would urge you to also post this to
the Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Legislation working group's
mailing list:

<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-legislation>

That group focuses specifically on open tools and content in relation
to legislation and associated (e.g. judicial) matters

Rufus

On 29 March 2012 21:01, Ari Hershowitz <aih at tabulaw.com> wrote:
> I'm inspired by the posts by Daniel and others on collaborative authoring
> around Open Government,  and think this group may be interested:
>
> Grant Vergottini and I are organizing an international (un)-hackathon, to
> add metadata to legislation around the world using a simple browser-based
> tool. We are targeting May 19 and would like to have local events and
> participants in many countries.   The plan for each local event is:
>
> 1. An Ignite talk on the importance of structured data for open government.
> 2. Selecting a few pieces of legislation to mark up using a developing
> international XML standard for legislation.
> 3. Marking up the legislation with the goal of having all countries'
> constitutions in XML, and perhaps also selected open government laws.
>
> Please let me or Grant know if you are interested in organizing a local
> event.
> Best,
> Ari