LinkedLegislation Blog

What is the role of data in law?  I was trained as a scientist, so I have a tendency to look for evidence and falsifiable hypotheses in law and my daily life.  On this blog, I have discussed one aspect of data in law, the value of adding structure and... [Read More]

My current best answer: this html2text package from Germany.  It can be installed easily on a MacOS with Macports ($ sudo port install html2text), and on other Unix-like systems through their package managers.  It has a number of useful options, and I use it like this:html2text -nobs -ascii -width 200 -style... [Read More]

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]