US Code Available in XML and HTML

Corpora-List legal text: US Code Available in XML and HTML
From: Lillian Lee (llee@cs.cornell.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 05:08:30 MET DST
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From: "Thomas R. Bruce" <trb2@cornell.edu>

Earlier this week, the Legal Information Institute unveiled a new edition of the United States Code -- all the Federal law passed by Congress currently in force. For the first time, we are also releasing the underlying XML version as a dataset for use by researchers interested in legal text (or in highly-structured text or legislation generally). You can find the HTML version at http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode; the XML is available for download at http://lula.law.cornell.edu/uscxml; a sort of disorganized colophon muttering about various technical aspects of the project is at http://lula.law.cornell.edu/davalyzer.

Part of the reason I'm telling all of you this is that I'd like to get the word out to the IS community generally and as widely as possible, and I'm largely ignorant of its hangouts and folkways. If any of you know of mailing lists or other apparatus where such notification would be appropriate, please feel free (and strongly encouraged) to pass it on. This is the first time (that I know of) that such a large body of legislation has been available to people in the IS community. If you know of anyone with a particular interest in such things, do let me (or them) know.

Thanks all,
Tb.

Thomas R. Bruce (trb2@cornell.edu)
Director, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School
http://www.law.cornell.edu/

[Source: http://helmer.hit.uib.no/corpora/2004-3/0013.html]

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See details in the news story "Legal Information Institute Releases Complete United States Code in XML Format."

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