[Open-Legislation] Converting fun / european rules
Stefan Sels
stefan at sels.com
Tue Jan 25 21:16:32 UTC 2011
Hi folks,
I started playing around with german transcripts from the Bundestag.
It is purely experimental, just to see how the current tools convert,
its done with pdftotext and pdftohtml.
Original:
http://tronicum.org/docfnord/bundestach/17085.pdf
Txt:
http://tronicum.org/docfnord/bundestach/17085.txt
Html:
http://tronicum.org/docfnord/bundestach/17085.html
The Conversions show that within the German Stuff the two column layout
sucks. The pdf2txt scopes with that pretty well, but e.g. simple
comments to the speakers are inserted with
"(Somebody adds a sentence to speaker [PARTYNAME])"
So that is not distinguishable from normal paranthesis. I know this is
wishful dreaming but they would need to provide XML or get their
documentation better in my opinion. It is a similar problem like mixing
up programming or HTML code with layout.
Can anybody make examples how laws or transcripts are done from their
local government?
Is there a way to actually make a law (rule, whatever) proposal on EU
level how local parlaments should document their work? Like Germans love
to have rules, if we would have an European rule on howto document
eGovernmental works, that would even force the countrys to give us the
data in the format we want.
I repeat, this is wishful dreaming, but if we think like them (making
laws to fix broken old laws), is it not possible to fix the lack of good
documention of law making by lobbying them to fix their process?
Greetings from Colonge,
Stefan
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