transparency camp09
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presentation i gave at Transparency Camp Feb 09. It later became citability.orgTRANSCRIPT
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Easy Legislation
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Two little things
1.Versioning
2.“advanced” Permalinks
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pretty please?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticrevolver/161355000/sizes/l/
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with sugar on top?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alaig/2873747060/sizes/l/
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I’ll be your best friend
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo4jenifer/3246082603/
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1. Versioning
• All changes shown
• and time-stamped
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“Show me the changes”
• we can make the fancy interfaces!
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how to see changes?
• simple strike thrus
• like in a word doc
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http://whitehouse.wikia.com
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http://versionista.com/pub/15881/1/7/9:8/
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many other models
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
• Word processors
• Spreadsheets
• Content management System
• Wikis
• Coding systems : sVN and GIT
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• who did what is optional
• I’ll explain later...
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Part 2...
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What does all Law and legislation have in Common?
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Paragraph notation
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www.assnat.qc.ca/archives-36leg1se/eng/Publications/Projets-loi/publics/00-a160.pdf
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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-45
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http://clerk.ci.homer.ak.us/document/108.htm
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http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/234.html
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“Advanced” permalink
• http://domain.com/folder/file/datetime#path to paragraph
• or
• http://Domain.com/uniquedocname/DateTime#Title Section (subsection) Chapter (subchapter) paragraph Clause
• (with optional sub pieces)
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Microformat
• Simple
• human readable
• (we can always have outside groups do tiny URLS)
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paragraph level
• by being so atomic it is closer to being an ISSUE
• semantic purposes...
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all
• law
• and
• legislation
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notice “Perma” as in permanent
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/269890607/sizes/o/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/liberato/171610084/sizes/l/
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http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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“advanced” = Datetime
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• see why don’t want WHo did what yet? stay with me...
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old Way
• a Summary portion - a paragraph explaining what used to be there
• NIcknames
• pieces of legislation and documentation scattered everywhere (Federal budget)
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New way
• We can pick up pieces!
• you could read thru the law and legislation
• visualization: • all new temporary legislation in red.
• Old to be changed in strikethru.
• unchanging in Black.
• could see context!
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Real Citations
• Press
• school children
• legislators (staff ;-))
• citizens
• findability
• reduced confusion
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RSS feeds
• to both get data
• and find out changes
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External documentation
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http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/about/#1
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http://www.diigo.com
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:228_Incident
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SBC
D1 at 100 D2 at 100 D3 at 125 D5 at 100
Sen 1
Sen 2Sen 3
Sen 4Subcommittee
5 paragraphs
Senator 1 has 425K from SBC
related interests
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alaig/2873747060/sizes/l/
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•Who entered it (link to profile)•date•Link to original text or citation•Reputation rating•validated BY•Group association (Link to Group)•Action desired•tags etc...
Any piece of info
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Intuitive Tools
• like Youtube
• Copy paste
• post link on facebook
• post link on Digg
• Post link to my blog
• etc etc
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Communities
• Codeathon.pbwiki.com
• barcamps - ala transitcamp
• Contests - apps for democracy
• Hackathons (attach to tech conferences)
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Trust but verify
http://www.flickr.com/photos/denaldo/3046615774/sizes/o/
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Multiple Locations
• Archive.org
• Libraries
• independent Organizations
• cloning servers w hashes makes it difficult to change!
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Hey! what about who did what!?!
never easy (many sponsors many pieces)
So they can attach it themselves
• as the who
• and their documentation why
• in a different location!
• which will facilitate discussion and dialogue w citizens
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Remember this one...
• http://domain.com/folder/file/DATETIME#paragraph
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who did what
• can be subjective...
• hard to document
• what to argue the WHY...
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politicians can then becomes statesmen again