The document discusses the integration of legislative data management with version control tools like Git, comparing the process of writing law to writing code. It outlines steps for using existing code review tools to manage amendments and explores functionalities like commenting, data mining, and visualization. The author invites interested parties to connect for further collaboration.

1. 2 years ago at Open Legislative Data
Conference...
https://gitorious.org/law-is-code/
Push amendments into a git repository
Methinks great idea!

2. writing law
=?
writing code

3. Writing code
• Text
• Collaborative, Distributed, Parrallel
• Workflow, Review, Discuss, Proof-read
• (Automated) Testing ?
• LOTS of tools to work fast (editor, version control, scripting, etc)

4. Law is Code Rebooted
1. Use existing tools for code review
2. Convert from git to hg
3. Import into cubicweb-vcreview
4. Scratch head...

5. What can I do?
1. comment amendments
2. query (datamining?)
3. export (csv, ods, json, etc.)
4. reports, dataviz ?

6. Interested ? Get in touch!
nicolas.chauvat@logilab.fr
http://www.cubicweb.org/