John Sheridan Legislation as Open Data. 2 Consumers Lawyers Sources of Law Old world.

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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