I am working on developing a toolchain for consumption of Akoma Ntoso legal documents, my first target being NLTK for some natural language processing. I have not released anything really usable as-of-yet.
(I had to choose a file format that could support everything, and it seems that every player is hellbent on creating their own custom XML format, so I chose something with international appeal and government backing. Mind you I only discovered Akoma Ntoso like 4 months ago, and I've been working on this since like 2009-2010 when California was forced in a lawsuit to allow people to download the law, which was as far as I can tell the first time any law was downloadable in bulk for free on the Internet. It also started out as a learning experience in programming more than anything else, trying different techniques and APIs etc.)
> How does your product/service improve quality of life?
My hope is that my work improves your quality of life by helping keep you sane, out of prison, and focused on things that matter.
* California Codes: ~ 150,000 sections
* United States Code: ~ 50,000 or something
* Code of Federal Regulations: ~ 20,000 or something
* California Code of Regulations: ~ 15,000 or something
Keep in mind that you won't know a section will not send you to prison until after you've read it. And let's not lie: you've never read it.
I am working on developing a toolchain for consumption of Akoma Ntoso legal documents, my first target being NLTK for some natural language processing. I have not released anything really usable as-of-yet.
(I had to choose a file format that could support everything, and it seems that every player is hellbent on creating their own custom XML format, so I chose something with international appeal and government backing. Mind you I only discovered Akoma Ntoso like 4 months ago, and I've been working on this since like 2009-2010 when California was forced in a lawsuit to allow people to download the law, which was as far as I can tell the first time any law was downloadable in bulk for free on the Internet. It also started out as a learning experience in programming more than anything else, trying different techniques and APIs etc.)
> How does your product/service improve quality of life?
My hope is that my work improves your quality of life by helping keep you sane, out of prison, and focused on things that matter.
* California Codes: ~ 150,000 sections
* United States Code: ~ 50,000 or something
* Code of Federal Regulations: ~ 20,000 or something
* California Code of Regulations: ~ 15,000 or something
Keep in mind that you won't know a section will not send you to prison until after you've read it. And let's not lie: you've never read it.