WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and the Data Coalition, an open government advocacy group, held a Legislative Data Demo Day Wednesday to discuss details of the bi-partisan Statutes at Large Modernization Act (H.R. 4006), as well as some ways open and “successful” legislative data might be used.
For over two years, Congress has been publishing the U.S. Code, which organizes active laws by subject matter, as open data. It uses a standardized XML structure called the U.S. Legislative Model, or USLM, to publish, code and tag those laws so they can be software-readable.