Exciting News! An Akoma Ntoso Challenge
As someone who has trained in Akoma Ntoso and realizes what the potential of the US adopting this XML standard is, I'm thrilled to see the Library of Congress taking this important step to introduce coders and government staff--all across the US--to the potential of this standards base. Links: http://akoma-ntoso-markup.challenge.gov/ http://www.akomantoso.org/akoma-ntoso-in-detail/schema-1 "As mentioned by Mr. Robert Reeves and Mr. Gherardo Casini at the 2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference, the Library of Congress is sponsoring data challenges to help advance the development of international exchange standards for legislative data. The first challenge, Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso, opened today and invites competitors to create representations of four specific US bills using the most recent Akoma Ntoso XML schema. Rather than trying to convert existing US bill XML to the proposed Akoma Ntoso standard, this challenge asks competitors to markup the raw text versions of US bills using the structure, elements, and attributes of the Akoma Ntoso schema and produce an entirely new XML version of the bill. To learn more about the challenge, please visit Challenge.gov, the Law Library of Congress blog, In Custodia Legis, or read the official press release. Sincerely, Tina Gheen US Library of Congress"
