German federal laws and regulations appear to have been marked up in Markdown format and placed on GitHub, at https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze#german-federal-laws-and-regulations.
According to the project’s ReadMe, “The source is the XML version of the laws from www.gesetze-im-internet.de “
Scrapers and other tools associated with this project appear to be on GitHub at https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze-tools.
The project seems consistent with the recent trend commonly called GitLaw.
For details on updates and other issues, please see the project’s ReadMe.
The names of the personnel on this project are unknown. The Twitter account associated with this project appears to be @bundesgit.
HT @newsycombinator and @sclopit.
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August 8, 2012 at 9:02 pm |
[...] At least to some extent, it looks like Abe’s ideas are becoming reality. Today, Robert C. Richards, Jr. (Ph.D. candidate, J.D., M.S.L.I.S., M.A., B.A) reports that German federal laws and regulations have found their way onto GitHub. [...]