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Through the Spy Glass. User Oriented Drafting workflows for Secondary Legislation Artefacts. The Scottish Building Standards System. 32 Local Authorities 32 Building Control Departments Highly fragmented industry (Construction & Engineering) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Through the Spy Glass
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
User Oriented Drafting workflows for Secondary Legislation ArtefactsLa Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative
Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
The Scottish Building Standards System
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
• 32 Local Authorities• 32 Building Control
Departments• Highly fragmented industry
(Construction & Engineering)
• Incredibly complex system of guidance, some legally binding, some not
• Delegated task of producing 1 set of national building regulations (Scottish Technical Standards)
• Mountain of accompanying documentation
• All in PDF!!!
With Regulations & Legislation sometimes its not a simple case of RTFM!!!
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
Others times… there’s just no excuse!
December 1968- the crew of Apollo 8 took the first ever picture of the
Earth from outer space
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
It marked a defining moment as the astronauts realised they were quite
literally worlds apart from us
Open Linked Legislation
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
On-going Effort(s)
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
Where to start???
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
How far can we go before we end up with information overload due to already overburdened staff cracking up?
Current workflows in Design Checking
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
• Completely reliant upon accuracy of interpretation during 1st stage
• Hugely inconsistent between local authorities/over geographic boundaries
• Currently no measure to comparatively measure consistency of decisions
• Requirement for user oriented representations of domain specific literature to facilitate particular tasks
Current Authoring Model
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
Where can we help???• Where the approach doesn’t affect existing
workflows?• Doesn’t cost stacks of money due to time and up
front investment?• Addresses the problem of inconsistent
interpretation of legislative and regulatory documentation?
• Embraces the fast moving area of open data/legislation which allows us to build services around our data?
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
The User-Oriented drafting model
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
The Additional Step
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
• Based on (X)HTML source input• XProc managed linear XML pipeline• Pipeline consists of 7 parts covering
• XSLT transformation to Crown Legislation Markup Language
• interim error handling (x3)• domain context specific named
entity recognition and subsequent term feature annotation (regulation specific defined terms)
• profession specific term annotation using linked data construction resources from local/remote ontologies
Stage #1 - XSLT
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
Stage #3 – Primary Term Annotation
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
Stage #5 Secondary Propagation
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
Conclusions & Lessons• Consistency is key• Data cleaning and normalization is expensive but absolutely
imperative to ensuring good output• User oriented authoring can be achieved with medium term
investment (time) based on applied knowledge of target domain and technologies… plus vision and acknowledgement that the de facto scenario need to improve
• Existing standards – data model - query model – ecosystem• Near null financial investment. All OSS ASLv2.0• Opens the potential user base up entirely removing 100%
workload from national/local government to provide all services
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012
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• Twitter: @hectorMcSpector• Email: [email protected]
La Fabrique de la Loi - Open Legislative Data in Paris - 6th & 7th July, 2012