John Sheridan Legislation as Open Data

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3 Lawyers Sources of Law New world Digital Legal Services Consumers

UK legislation is open data 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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