On 14 January 2011 14:45, Paul Waring <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/01/11 14:44, Paul Waring wrote: > > Although legislation.gov.uk seems to have a much more permissive licence. >
And their attitude is very positive to anyone who wants to use what they put out. They intend to make some kind of XML marked up legislation available sometime, but at the moment the html you get out of some of their products is extremely easy to analyse (compared with the earliest things that were put out this is a huge gain - being some who has read the markup of legislation over many years, I see a steady and welcome improvement). The real problem with legislation is that no-one actually has the whole lot marked up properly in electronically readable form (that's _no-one_) and getting it all put together in a rational form is hard work. Of course we could improve the production end by making new legislation appear in a form that made sense, but sadly that means getting Parliament not government to do sensible things (see "Free Our Bills" passim, particularly Tom's extremely apt adjective "bupkiss"). An aside to the main point. Hopefully Tom will let us (the wider MS community) know what we can do to help. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
