Transparency Camp09

Easy Legislation

Two little things

1.Versioning

2.“advanced” Permalinks

pretty please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticrevolver/161355000/sizes/l/

with sugar on top?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alaig/2873747060/sizes/l/

I’ll be your best friend

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo4jenifer/3246082603/

1. Versioning

• All changes shown

• and time-stamped

“Show me the changes”

• we can make the fancy interfaces!

how to see changes?

• simple strike thrus

• like in a word doc

http://whitehouse.wikia.com

http://versionista.com/pub/15881/1/7/9:8/

many other models

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control

• Word processors

• Spreadsheets

• Content management System

• Wikis

• Coding systems : sVN and GIT

• who did what is optional

• I’ll explain later...

Part 2...

What does all Law and legislation have in Common?

Paragraph notation

www.assnat.qc.ca/archives-36leg1se/eng/Publications/Projets-loi/publics/00-a160.pdf

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-45

http://clerk.ci.homer.ak.us/document/108.htm

http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/234.html

“Advanced” permalink

• http://domain.com/folder/file/datetime#path to paragraph

• or

• http://Domain.com/uniquedocname/DateTime#Title Section (subsection) Chapter (subchapter) paragraph Clause

• (with optional sub pieces)

Microformat

• Simple

• human readable

• (we can always have outside groups do tiny URLS)

paragraph level

• by being so atomic it is closer to being an ISSUE

• semantic purposes...

all

• law

• and

• legislation

notice “Perma” as in permanent

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/269890607/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liberato/171610084/sizes/l/

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

“advanced” = Datetime

• see why don’t want WHo did what yet? stay with me...

old Way

• a Summary portion - a paragraph explaining what used to be there

• NIcknames

• pieces of legislation and documentation scattered everywhere (Federal budget)

New way

• We can pick up pieces!

• you could read thru the law and legislation

• visualization: • all new temporary legislation in red.

• Old to be changed in strikethru.

• unchanging in Black.

• could see context!

Real Citations

• Press

• school children

• legislators (staff ;-))

• citizens

• findability

• reduced confusion

RSS feeds

• to both get data

• and find out changes

External documentation

http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/about/#1

http://www.diigo.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:228_Incident

SBC

D1 at 100 D2 at 100 D3 at 125 D5 at 100

Sen 1

Sen 2Sen 3

Sen 4Subcommittee

5 paragraphs

Senator 1 has 425K from SBC

related interests

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alaig/2873747060/sizes/l/

•Who entered it (link to profile)•date•Link to original text or citation•Reputation rating•validated BY•Group association (Link to Group)•Action desired•tags etc...

Any piece of info

Intuitive Tools

• like Youtube

• Copy paste

• post link on facebook

• post link on Digg

• Post link to my blog

• etc etc

Communities

• Codeathon.pbwiki.com

• barcamps - ala transitcamp

• Contests - apps for democracy

• Hackathons (attach to tech conferences)

Trust but verify

http://www.flickr.com/photos/denaldo/3046615774/sizes/o/

Multiple Locations

• Archive.org

• Libraries

• independent Organizations

• cloning servers w hashes makes it difficult to change!

Hey! what about who did what!?!

never easy (many sponsors many pieces)

So they can attach it themselves

• as the who

• and their documentation why

• in a different location!

• which will facilitate discussion and dialogue w citizens

Remember this one...

• http://domain.com/folder/file/DATETIME#paragraph

who did what

• can be subjective...

• hard to document

• what to argue the WHY...

politicians can then becomes statesmen again

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