LinkedLegislation Blog

Should legislative data schemes be open source?  That is the question that Grant Vergottini raises in his blog post today, To Go Open Source or Not.  It's a thought-provoking topic and I encourage you to join the discussion on Grant's blog. Some background and a bit of my thinking is... [Read More]

I'm excited to see the start of a new blog on legal informatics (and more), from Grant Vergottini.  Grant, a key participant and organizer of the California Law Hackathon, and his business partner, Bradlee Chang, developed the authoring system that California's legislature uses to write our state laws.  So he... [Read More]

I've gone back to the previous design for this blog.  I like Blogger's new "Dynamic Templates", but I suspect that they are changing how easy it is to search and find the blog.  So for now, I'm going back to the previous template.  And after this post, back to our... [Read More]

As you can see, the blog looks different.  Google has rolled out a number of new ways to view and navigate blogs, and I'm trying them out here. I like the Timeslide view the best (selection on the right), to see blog topics at a glance.If you have strong opinions one... [Read More]

Ever wonder who is responsible for a particular law?  Often the supporters and opponents of a bill are forgotten once the bill is codified into law.Now, however, as one of the results of the California Law Hackathon held two weeks ago, we can now get more insight into California's laws, section... [Read More]