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There is so much potential in applying version control to legal and legislative documents. Imagine being able to git blame a bill in Congress.
by charonn0 12y ago
There is so much potential in applying version control to legal and legislative documents. Imagine being able to git blame a bill in Congress.
- icebraining 12y agoWell, opencongress.org goes a long way already.
- davidmooreppf 12y agoDavid w/ the Participatory Politics Foundation here, we created & ran OpenCongress from 2007-2013, and now it lives with the Sunlight Foundation. I wrote about version control for legislation here on OC Blog in May 2012: http://goo.gl/Ll2rDs http://goo.gl/Ll2rDs. I still think it's possible on a site like OpenCongress or GovTrack, it's possible on GitHub, and this non-profit is working on it directly w/ their MADISON platform for text annotation: http://opengovfoundation.org http://opengovfoundation.org.
- danohuiginn 12y agoStefan Wehrmeyer tried this for Germany: http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2012/12/13/bundesgit-german-laws-on-github.html http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2012/12/13/bundesgit-german-laws-on... It's a solid idea. The problem is there's so much fiddly data-munging work, so it's a lot of effort to run such a tool.