Jim Harper, Esq., of the Cato Institute has posted a data model of the U.S. federal legislative process and XML markup for representing major types of U.S. federal legislative information, in his post entitled Helping the House Advance Data Transparency, at the Cato@Liberty blog.
The post appears to summarize Mr. Harper’s presentation at the House Legislative Data and Transparency Conference, held 2 February 2012 in Washinton, DC.
Click here for video of the panel that includes Mr. Harper’s presentation.
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