Waldo Jaquith
Waldo Jaquith
Most of the FOIA appeals/SCOTUS cases came before recodification, making pre-1995 code section references not really useful. I've noticed that recodifications are recorded on the Code Commission's website. I bet...
There are lots and lots of scholarly articles available that cite specific laws. These would be really valuable for people to see links to. But Google Scholar has no API,...
Some catch lines contain text like "Effective October 1, 2011" in them. This is not useful as of October 1, 2011, yet the titles remain there even in subsequent year's...
Some implementations (especially governments) call for putting multiple legal codes on a single platform. This can surely be easier than installing The State Decoded over and over again. Perhaps the...
At present, there are several shortcomings to the sitemap.xml generation system: 1. It is limited to 50,000 entries, due the that limitation within the sitemap.xml standard. (This isn't so bad—sitemap.xml...
We have several potential sources of information regarding the history of changes to a law—its baked-in history section, the Acts of Assembly (known by different titles in different states), and...
This is a pretty enormous thing to support. At a minimal (non-functional) level, it's easy—submit the text of a law to their API, save the resulting RDF. But that's not...
Figure out how to graphically indicate the frequency and substantiality of changes made to a section of code over time. Some sections are amended a lot, and some rarely or...
At present, it's assumed that somebody will show up with the correct XML to be parsed; any required XSLT would have been applied beforehand. It would be friendlier to allow...
The punishments for a crime is rarely stated directly in the text of a law. Instead, a law is simply classified as a "third-degree misdemeanor" or a "class 1 felony,"...