[Open-Legislation] Fwd: [euopendata] Examples of using open data on legislation?

Tue Apr 8 08:47:56 UTC 2014

Hi Francis,

Thanks for that. I have indeed already asked John Sheridan for input as
well.

Great observation on legislation.gov.uk not being up-to-date and not being
clear about that, and how that impacts reusability.

Will look at the other links you provided with interest.

Thanks!

Ton

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Francis Davey <fjmd1a at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2014-04-08 9:27 GMT+01:00 Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>:
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>> So I am really specifically looking for examples of how open data
>> concerning laws (and not law making) is being used. How are data sources
>> like legislation.gov.uk (UK), wetten.nl (NL), or RIS (A) used by the
>> public/organisations in applications / sites / tools / etc.?
>>
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> I - and many others - are reluctant to even think about using
> legislation.gov.uk as the basis of an app because the legislation is not
> up to date (or at least reliably so) and that makes it very dangerous to
> use without care. The problem with many forms of packaging it up is that it
> will be less transparent for users that they are getting incomplete or
> inaccurate data. At end 2015 this will be done and I suspect there'll be
> more effort in the community to do things with it.
>
> I do use the site privately for various things but I haven't been bothered
> to use the API.
>
> There is a commercial app that directly pulls and re-sells
> legislation.gov.uk:
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> http://www.ilegalapps.com/
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> Which I and others have criticised heavily:
>
>
> http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/2010/04/on-the-naughty-step-theres-not-an-app-for-that/
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> It may be being used "under the hood" in applications I don't know about.
> Your best bet would be to ask John Sheridan:
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> https://twitter.com/johnlsheridan
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> who is most likely to know about the use of the UK site if anyone does.
>
> --
> Francis Davey
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