On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:55:58PM +0000, Tom Kaneko wrote: > The problem I have is that the site is a little empty! I could > really do with filling it up with information so that people can > start picking documents apart. I envisioned government Bills to be > converted into this "consensus" format, but of course, as we all > know, getting machine-readable bills data is not possible at the > moment.
You can get the text of bills - the Free Our Bills campaign is about it being structured (e.g. properly marked up how a Bill would alter an Act in a computer readable way). For the consensus wiki, wouldn't the text be enough? > 1. How is the campaign to "free our Bills" going? And will having a > working example of what free Bills can be used for help? We haven't been actively persuing the public campaign it recently - lots of other things going on. Meanwhile lots of progress has been made at the National Archive in the related area of publishing enacted legislation (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/). There's still lots to do though before legislation and bills are fully machine readable. Francis _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
