LinkedLegislation Blog

I've been meaning to organize these papersI have been invited to speak [join a breakout panel on legislation] at the Data Transparency conference (2013) in Washington, D.C. next week. My message will be quite simple so that everyone can then focus on the other, very impressive, speakers: Now is the time... [Read More]

It's my birthday today. Maybe that's what makes me optimistic, despite evidence of a catastrophic climate change singularity, politicians and pundits still fiddling with Wiener while the planet burns, an immigration debate where rebuilding the Berlin wall on our border takes precedence over rebuilding our economy. Maybe that's why I... [Read More]

Creating a data-friendly reference for legal texts can be far from straightforward, as I pointed out in reference to the Supreme Court's decision this week to overturn DOMA section 3 (aka 1 USC 7).As  Tim Arnold-Moore pointed out in response to my last post on unique identifiers, not all issues can be addressed... [Read More]

The "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) Section 3 has been struck down. That may not be news to you by now.  If you ask me, striking it down was the easy part. Much harder is defending the Act on the grounds that the Supreme Court should show deference to the... [Read More]

There has been a lot of interest and I have gotten great feedback on the post about the book I'm writing with Grant about legislative data.Data standards are always a hot topic (relatively hot-- we normalize against interest in this field in general, not against interest in the Kardashians: ).Among the questions... [Read More]