LinkedLegislation Blog

Laws change. Each time a new U.S. law is enacted, it enters a backdrop of approximately 22 million words of existing law. The new law may strike some text, add some text, and make other adjustments that trickle through the legal corpus. Seeing these changes in context would help lawmakers... [Read More]

People want everything. When they're searching, they want flexibility and they want precision, too. Legal researchers, especially, show this cognitive dissonance: in their personal lives they are used to Google's flexibility ("show me that hairy dog that looks like a mop"), and at work they use 'Advanced' search interfaces that... [Read More]

A government client wants to be able to search through their data. In a typical case, an office or agency has a long-standing rulebook that employees still carry around in a paper binder, because they lack a browsable, searchable electronic version. For example, the GSA's consulting group, 18F recently described... [Read More]

In our data-rich world, everything goes better with search. We've gotten used to having search as a baked-in feature of applications and expect the search to be full-featured and flexible. So when building a data-rich enterprise web application, the question is often not whether to include search, but how.If the... [Read More]

Citations are the hyperlinks of law, so it is natural to expect textual citations to be hyperlinked in electronic laws. Numerous parallel efforts are taking on this task for federal government documents online, making those documents easier to read and navigate. Derek Willis (@derekwillis) of the New York Times noticed these links... [Read More]