The Indigo Legislation Platform is an open source web application for the capturing, consolidation and publication of legislation to enable free access to law. It is built by Code for South Africa, for AfricanLII, under a grant from the Indigo Trust.

1. The Indigo Legislation Platform
Greg Kempe
greg@code4sa.org
@longhotsummer
AfricanLII
Code for South Africa
The Indigo Trust

2. Indigo is an open source web platform for
the consolidation and publication of
legislation.
Make it easier to capture & publish well
structured legislation to facilitate free
access to law.

3. Change this …

4. Into this …

5. To enable this …

6. … and this …

7. … and this …

8. … and everything else we haven’t
dreamt of yet.

9. The Indigo Platform is an
ENABLER
and not an end goal

10. APPROACH

11. Capture
CONTENT
STRUCTURE
METADATA

12. Automate
PRESENTATION
because it depends on the user, use-case,
language, medium, context, etc.

13. Hide
AKOMA NTOSO
because no-one wants to write XML

16. JUICY DETAILS

18. XML
Grammar + Parser (Ruby)
Text
XSL

23. Can import
PDF, RTF, Word, XML, Plain Text, …

24. Standalone REST Application API
Web Editor built on the Application API

25. Content API with Content Negotiation
/api/za/act/1994/1/eng.xml
/api/za/act/1994/1/eng.json
/api/za/act/1994/1/eng.html
/api/za/act/1994/1/eng/toc.json
/api/za/act/1994/1/eng/chapter/1.html

26. africanlii.org
openbylaws.org.za

27. Indigo API, Indigo Editor
Python Django Applications
github.com/Code4SA/indigo
Cobalt
Lightweight Python library for Akoma Ntoso
github.com/Code4SA/cobalt
Slaw
Grammar and parser (Ruby)
github.com/longhotsummer/slaw

28. Challenges
term and def
schedules
blockList vs point
element refs in remote documents

29. indigo.code4sa.org
africanlii.org
code4sa.org
www.indigotrust.org.uk
openbylaws.org.za