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Public Review of OASIS Akoma Ntoso Version 1.0 Standard Announced

Posted by: Tina Gheen

After two years of hard work, the OASIS LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) Technical Committee is nearing the end of its formal standardization process for the Akoma Ntoso legislative data standard. As you may recall, Akoma Ntoso is an international parliamentary and legislative XML standard that enables the exchange of documents and data across legislative organizations. It was …

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An Interview with Colleen Hybl, Daly Topp, and Shannon Wang

Posted by: Tina Gheen

This summer Jolande Goldberg and I had three talented women working with us on the Indigenous Law Portal: Colleen Hybl, Daly Topp, and Shannon Wang. These interns were part of the LC Knowledge Navigators Program Non-paid Internship Program with the University of Virginia. During their time with us, they learned a great deal about LC Classification …

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Introducing the Indigenous Law Portal

Posted by: Tina Gheen

At the recent American Association of Law Libraries Conference, Jennifer Gonzalez, Jolande Goldberg and I had an opportunity to unveil a new Indigenous Law Portal. The Indigenous Law Portal brings together collection materials from the Law Library of Congress as well as links to tribal websites and primary source materials found on the Web. The …

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Jim Mangiafico and Garrett Schure Announced as Winners of the Second Library of Congress Legislative Data Challenge

Posted by: Tina Gheen

After months of hard work, we are pleased to announce Jim Mangiafico and Garrett Schure as the winners of the Library of Congress Second Legislative Data Challenge, Legislative XML Data Mapping. As you may remember, we launched this challenge last fall with the goal of advancing the development of international exchange standards for legislative data and …

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First Legislative Data Challenge Winner Announced

Posted by: Tina Gheen

Today we have the great pleasure of announcing Jim Mangiafico as the winner of our first legislative data challenge, Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso and the $5,000 prize. The challenge, which was open from July 16 to October 31, invited participants to create XML versions of US bill text using the Akoma Ntoso standard. We …

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Second Library of Congress Legislative Data Challenge Launched

Posted by: Tina Gheen

In July, the Library announced its first legislative data challenge. We are delighted to tell you about another Library of Congress legislative data challenge, Legislative XML Data Mapping. Like the first data challenge, this challenge incorporates the Akoma Ntoso legislative schema, but instead of asking competitors to apply the schema to bill text, we are …

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An Interview with Jill MacNeice, Information Architect

Posted by: Tina Gheen

This week’s interview is with Jill MacNeice, an Information Architect in the Office of Strategic Initiatives of the Library of Congress. What is your professional history? I grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I went to college at Brown University in Rhode Island, where I studied something completely unrelated to what I do now. I …