On 29 July 2010 10:56, Russ Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 July 2010 10:46, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: >> The National Archive have launched http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ > > Is this intended to replace http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk? (I note they > both have the same favicon.) Although legislation.gov.uk is slightly > nicer designed, they both do exactly the same thing. I suspect they > might be both sharing the same back end data. >
The html appears to be the same as that from the opsi site. The URL scheme is a lot better (the old "friendly" URL scheme was impossible to use in practice without already knowing far too much about the act). Though it looks better in many ways, I don't think that it gives all that much fundamentally different functionality to the web user - I still have to explore the API though. It has the same clunky feel as the SLD (and westlaw for that matter) at times though. Sometimes the relatively relaxed approach of the opsi site was better. I've been fiddling around with trying to add value to statute data for some time - in particular to add serious cross-linking and cross-referencing which is ever more necessary. This may mean I don't need to scrape so much, but that hasn't really been a problem since the new html started being served up by opsi (a veil is best drawn over what was there originally). -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
