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Apparently, the UN and some African countries also make use of Akoma Ntoso, but like you I've never seen it in practice. Open data is not provided well. For exa
by ocky7 10y ago
Apparently, the UN and some African countries also make use of Akoma Ntoso, but like you I've never seen it in practice. Open data is not provided well. For example, it is possible to get XML documents from the EU parliament, but you have to request access to their FTP server and it is a laborious process.
I've met Monica Palmirani of Akoma Ntoso recently and she told me they have just launched a case law standard, and so they're still working on it. I'm actually amazed she hasn't burned out yet. Trying to get governments to play nice data-wise is i n c r e d i b l y hard.
- oever 10y agoThe case-law standard is called ECLI. It's used in a few countries and being rolled out in more. At least one Dutch news paper uses ECLI when referring to court cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECLI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECLI http://bo-ecli.eu/ http://bo-ecli.eu/ Dutch law and government publications are available as XML and ODF. The constitution: http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001840/2008-07-15 http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001840/2008-07-15 A publication about standards: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2015-39782.html https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2015-39782.htm... Each article can be linked and documents referring to each article can be found as well. For example all known documents that link to article 5 (equality) of the constitution: http://linkeddata.overheid.nl/embedded/portal/spiegel-lijstweergave?juriconnect=jci1.3%3ac%3aBWBR0001840%26hoofdstuk%3d1%26artikel%3d1%26z%3d2008-07-15%26g%3d2008-07-15 http://linkeddata.overheid.nl/embedded/portal/spiegel-lijstw... The links are available as RDF. Currently work is underway to publish law as XML and RDF with ODF/PDF/HTML as secondary formats. This will allow embedding of data such as property lines, lists of medicines, reusable financial reports.