Comments on: Tell us about your data http://legalweb.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/tell-us-about-your-data/ Bringing the law together Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Francis Davey http://legalweb.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/tell-us-about-your-data/#comment-54 Francis Davey Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:24:31 +0000 http://legalweb.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-54 Well, its a scandal that the court service decided to stop publishing what it was publishing - very much contrary to the trend towards openness. I was shocked when I found the judgment database (which I had been quietly scraping) was taken down. The tribunals service (via a much harder to scrape interface, Francis and I spent ages trying to work it out) does a much better job and the RPTS tries to put everything up. Its all useful. But there's much much more that's too old to have gotten on to all these internet databases. That would be useful too. However, I think you are going to get lawyers to contribute on substantive material (coz that's intersting) and geeks to contribute on stuff that is database like. Sadly I am both :-(. Well, its a scandal that the court service decided to stop publishing what it was publishing – very much contrary to the trend towards openness. I was shocked when I found the judgment database (which I had been quietly scraping) was taken down. The tribunals service (via a much harder to scrape interface, Francis and I spent ages trying to work it out) does a much better job and the RPTS tries to put everything up. Its all useful.

But there’s much much more that’s too old to have gotten on to all these internet databases. That would be useful too. However, I think you are going to get lawyers to contribute on substantive material (coz that’s intersting) and geeks to contribute on stuff that is database like. Sadly I am both :-( .

]]> By: John Sheridan http://legalweb.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/tell-us-about-your-data/#comment-33 John Sheridan Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:58:08 +0000 http://legalweb.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-33 Francis's request to the "unlocking service" for enabling access to Case Law information from the Court Service has been posted here: <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/2008/08/20/CaseLaw" rel="nofollow">http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/2008/08/20/CaseLaw</a>. You can support this request by voting for it. John Sheridan Head of e-Services, OPSI. Francis’s request to the “unlocking service” for enabling access to Case Law information from the Court Service has been posted here:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/2008/08/20/CaseLaw. You can support this request by voting for it.

John Sheridan
Head of e-Services, OPSI.

]]> By: John Sheridan http://legalweb.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/tell-us-about-your-data/#comment-31 John Sheridan Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:36:00 +0000 http://legalweb.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-31 From an OPSI perspective, I want to understand how we need to present legislative data in order for such social production activities to flourish. I am quite taken by the <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/02/presto_a_www_information_archi.html" rel="nofollow">PRESTO</a> approach to legislation publishing. If we implemented this for legislation as revised and enacted, it should help considerably? As regards the content, we're working on increasing the scope of our coverage on the OPSI website - which I hope will help. I shall be coming to the event on the 18th October with that one objective in mind, understanding what we need to do, both technically and in policy terms, to enable the Free Legal Web to happen. It is an exciting ambition which has my support. John Sheridan Head of e-Services, OPSI. From an OPSI perspective, I want to understand how we need to present legislative data in order for such social production activities to flourish. I am quite taken by the PRESTO approach to legislation publishing. If we implemented this for legislation as revised and enacted, it should help considerably?

As regards the content, we’re working on increasing the scope of our coverage on the OPSI website – which I hope will help.

I shall be coming to the event on the 18th October with that one objective in mind, understanding what we need to do, both technically and in policy terms, to enable the Free Legal Web to happen.

It is an exciting ambition which has my support.

John Sheridan
Head of e-Services, OPSI.

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