For anyone interested in this idea, check out legalhacks.org and join us for a hackathon at UC Hastings on May 19, to mark up legislation and discuss metadata s

For anyone interested in this idea, check out legalhacks.org and join us for a hackathon at UC Hastings on May 19, to mark up legislation and discuss metadata standards for legislation. internationallegislation.eventbrite.com Having legislative markup is necessary for any git-like system, because of the complex ways that amendments are currently made. We'll be joined at the hackathon by Grant Vergottini, a member of the LegalXML OASIS committee, and the person who built the legislative editor that California uses. As many people here have commented, adoption by legislatures of [seems my earlier comment does not appear]