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

Fri Mar 30 22:22:48 UTC 2012

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll crosspost an ask forgiveness in advance
from anyone on both lists.
Ari
On Mar 30, 2012 6:14 AM, "Rufus Pollock" <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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