Prompted by a surprisingly relevant TED talk[1] from a presenter named Clay Shirky, I poked around on github and quickly located "divegeek/uscode"[2], which many others have forked. There's also "unitedstates/uscode-git"[3], which seems to have more of a lookup style of implementation.
[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html [2] https://github.com/divegeek/uscode [3] https://github.com/unitedstates/uscode I find these interesting...and somewhat ambitious. I had a similar idea several months ago--to start with the First legistlation passed and signed into law ("An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths") and to then "commit" future changes to the repository, but have the files only contain the _effective_ legislation, without any of the kruft ("...Statute $foo repealed Section $bar. Statute $baz substituted $fricka for $fracka_firecracker...")...basically putting the ammendment text in the commit log, along with footnotes regarding cultural context which led to the legislation being introduced... But we don't have a lot of the early legislation imported in plain text...so it was going to be a more ambitious undertaking than I had CFT to pursue. :) but kudos to the guys that are pursuing it...even if it's just keeping up with current legislation. :) --Aaron _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
