Here are the law-related papers (as best I can identify them), with links to slides where available, presented at OD 2010: The Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation, held 30 June-2 July 2010, at the Leeds University Business School, in Leeds, England, UK: Euripidis Loukis and Maria Wimmer, Analysing different models of structured electronic consultationRead… Read more »
John L. Sheridan of the UK National Archives and his team have released Legislation.gov.uk, which presents UK legislation as Linked Data, and provides free public access — including bulk access via RESTful API — to UK legislation and legislative metadata in a range of formats, including XML. Legislation.gov.uk includes both statutes and statutory instruments. ClickRead… Read more »
Joe Carmel, formerly of the U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Computer Systems Unit, has posted LegisLink.Org: Simplified Human-Readable URLs for Legislative Citations, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. Carmel describes LegisLink.org, an innovative, collaboratively developed URL redirection service for legislative documents. LegisLinkRead… Read more »
The 2010 World eParliament Report is now available. The report — produced by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament — presents the results of a 2009 survey “of 264 chambers of unicameral and bicameral parliaments in 188 countries and [] two regional parliaments. 134 responses were received […].” The survey addressed six aspects ofRead… Read more »
Dr. Fred Freitas of Universität Mannheim Zentrum für Wirtschaftsinformatik Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management Research Group and Federal Universidade of Pernambuco Informatics Center, Zacharias Candeias Jr. of the Pernambuco Agência Estadual de Tecnologia da Informação, and Professor Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt of Universität Mannheim Zentrum für Wirtschaftsinformatik Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management Research Group, will presentRead… Read more »
A number of software applications and platforms are now available for creating visualizations (i.e., graphical depictions) of legislation. Here are some of them: Compendium — an argument mapping application, distributed free-of-charge — has been applied to legislation (see pages 129-132) by participants in the EU’s LEX-IS Project. (See the description in Loukis et al., UsingRead… Read more »
Mark Deckert, Abram Stern, and Professor Warren Sack, all of the University of California Santa Cruz, presented a poster entitled Enabling Peer Review of Expert Testimony Within Government Proceedings at dg.o 2010: The 11th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 17-20 May 2010 in Puebla, Mexico. Click here for the poster. Click here forRead… Read more »
Dr. Richard Hilhorst of Raad van State and Professor Dr. Tom van Engers of the Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam, have published E-dossier at the Dutch Council of State: Design, Implementation and Lessons Learned, in ICT4JUSTICE 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICT Solutions for Justice, Skopje, FYR Macedonia,Read… Read more »
Professor Jennifer Golbeck, Justin M. Grimes, and Anthony Rogers, all of the University of Maryland College Park College of Information Studies, have published Twitter Use by the U.S. Congress, forthcoming in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). [Click here for a full text preprint.] This study is of potential interestRead… Read more »
Peter Kinnaird (a member of our community), Mario Romero, and Professor Gregory Abowd, all of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, have posted Connect 2 Congress: Visual Analytics for Civic Oversight, a paper presented at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010, in Atlanta,Read… Read more »