Working Groups/Legislation

= Working Group on Open Legislation =

= Purpose =


 * 1) Define the area of Open Legislation - what it means and what it involves
 * 2) Act as a central point of reference and support for people who are interested in open legislation
 * 3) Identify practices of early adopters, collecting data and developing guides.
 * 4) Act as a hub for the development of low cost, community driven projects related to open legislation

What is Open Legislation
At least three facets: availabilty of legal documents, information on law-making processes and the collaborative work on legal documents (may be out of scope).

= Members =

See http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-legislation/

= Mailing lists and Resources =


 * Public mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-legislation
 * anyone can subscribe. Mailing list archives are public.
 * DataHub Group: http://datahub.io/group/legislation

= Related links =

http://weboflaw.com/Linking%20World%20Law%20Data.pdf To join in please email neocodex@webofmail.com
 * OpenCongress - Tracks Congress bills, http://www.opencongress.org/about/code, Ruby (on Rails & Drugs)
 * Tratten - Loads EURLex into MediaWiki, https://github.com/kattla/tratten-scripts, Perl.
 * GovTrack.us - Tracks people, legislation etc. in Congress, http://www.govtrack.us/developers/, Perl and ASP uses data from http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h3458: which provides XML for US congress bills
 * LawLeecher - Load EURLex, http://www.uni-potsdam.de/db/ls_regierungssystem_brd/index.php?article_id=460&clang=0, Ruby Interesting. Forked to github to take closer look at it. https://github.com/levinalex/LawLeecer
 * MemoPol2 - EU MEPs, https://github.com/stefanp/memopol2, Python/Django
 * NosDeputes - French Parliament, http://www.nosdeputes.fr/, PHP
 * Bundestagger - Tracks German parliamentary speeches, http://www.bundestagger.de/, Django Python
 * Deutschland API - DE MdB, http://www.deutschland-api.de/Hauptseite, Python, PHP
 * Adhocracy - Makes laws ;-), http://trac.adhocracy.de, Python
 * pippilongstrings, does some text munging on eur-lex texts among others. http://pippi.euwiki.org
 * Swedish opengov page http://www.opengov.se/sidor/english/
 * Swedish Laws and Court cases: https://lagen.nu/index/
 * http://www.opengovdata.org/
 * http://www.itsyourparliament.eu/ Its Your Parliament .eu consists of the votes cast in the EU-parliament no idea what it is (guess ruby) contact: http://www.buhlrasmussen.eu/
 * http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bab-kabgv/BJNR151300997.html (goal is to enable something like git blame for every german legal text, like so: http://bit.ly/gXvQP8)
 * Electorama - Home of the election methods mailing list - http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Main_Page
 * Metagovernment Project - http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page - loose association of poll/voting/drafting/deliberation software projects
 * Votorola - http://zelea.com/project/votorola/home.xht - eDemocracy software for drafting and voting on legislation
 * very, very simple scraper at http://github.com/levinalex/bgdump anyone interested in the data?
 * pretty pictures: http://a.yfrog.com/img620/473/h4gms.png
 * Open Science Data Cloud's project Neocodex, presented in the following paper: