LinkedLegislation Blog

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]

I'm writing a book with +Grant. This may be a surprise to him. We've discussed the book, we're planning on it, we've even begun to flesh out many of the ideas in our blogs. But we hadn't said anything publicly about it until now. Grant's in Hong Kong this week for... [Read More]

Two obvious questions:1. What have I been up to while neglecting this blog for so long?2. What was so important that I'm back to blog again?I'll give away the second answer first: the U.S. House of Representatives (yes, that U.S. House) held its second annual Legislative Data and Transparency Conference.... [Read More]