john sheridan legislation as open data. 2 consumers lawyers sources of law old world
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John Sheridan
Legislation as Open Data
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Consumers
Lawyers
Sources of Law
Old world
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Lawyers
Sources of Law
New world
Digital LegalServices
Consumers
UK legislation is open data
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UK’s Open Government Partnership Commitments to legislation open data• Publish all new legislation quickly, in an open standard
format• Make all legislation data freely available for people to re-
use, as open data, under the Open Government Licence• Bring the revised legislation on legislation.gov.uk up to date
through an “Expert Participation” programme
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Open data as operating model
• Make the legislation available as open data• Provide the means for people to contribute back• In the “Expert Participation” programme, third parties are
working with us to maintain the official legislation database • We train the editors and assess their work• People can come from *anywhere* not just be government
employees
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Benefits
• Efficiency - government benefits through more people to help managing the data
• Better service - the public benefits from a better service at legislation.gov.uk, more up to date revised legislation
• Commercial exploitation - companies benefit by building products and services re-using the data
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