Wow, stumbling around the Web I sometimes find a Gold Nugget! I have often used OregonLaws.org
Without researching its source. Law is Code! Code is Law!
Good Job Robb! Fantastic contribution! I owe you....thanks and more.
At Thanksgiving I give thanks to those that have made a contribution to the world without expectation of return. Sir Tim, Jonas Salk, Jimmy Wales. At the aggregate level, individuals are making a contribution to us all. Crowd Sourced contribution of Open Source Software. Individual collective entities like Github. Contributions to the Public Domain. Pro bono. A contribution to the Commons.
Their fundamental contribution? Reducing complexity to simplicity. Ambiguity to precision. Something that our society is critically in need of to make critical decisions. The legacy system to do that was Law expressed in the code of Natural Language. In the Information Age it is being expressed in a new language in which we must become more proficient in use.
Coders are using a more precise language to create tools for us to use. I do not code but I have some idea of how to use the tools coders are creating for me! We just don't know who or what Technology at the most granular object and application level is doing for us any more than we can comprehend the granular level of a system structure that put a man on the moon to take one small step at the same time making a Giant Conceptual Leap that we all can see. It all rested on levels of precise symbolic abstraction in Hard Science. Hard Science is extending its model into the Softer Science of Law to improve our conceptual legal meta structure as well as the precision and systemic integrity of its content.
I don't know the code that enables me to write this blog but I certainly can use the tool that it creates!
This is a belated Thanks to coders. Thanks for the code you gift to us. Thanks Robb as an instance of the Class!
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The chain that lead to Robb starting with where did OregonLaws.org come from. It is a fantastic tool for me to use! I would have guessed it came from some academic institution or some deep pocket non-profit.
https://blog.weblaws.org/category/jurisdictions/oregon/
A worthy endeavor that has fallen by the wayside of the Time Line. Last entry March 1st, 2015.
However the blog gives some interesting historical background information;
https://blog.weblaws.org/2012/03/26/2011-oregon-revised-statutes-now-onli
Robb Shecter is responsible for "importing 2011 ORS into OregonLaws.org."
https://robb.weblaws.org/about/
It looks like OregonLaws.org came from Robb!
This (apparently) is an example of Amendment Analysis that throws some light on methodology for how OregonLaws.org was created?
https://github.com/public-law/analyze-oregon-law-haskell
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbshecter
This is what Robb did for Las Vegas:
https://github.com/public-law/nevada-revised-statutes-parser
How the JSON parser is applied to Nevada Statutes is beyond me.... but evidently it takes the Title/Table meta data structure of the Statutes and puts it into a better structural form?
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/
JSON A data interchange language. Maybe I can even learn it and read it! I have seen it applied to GIS.
https://json-csv.com/ Json to csv converter
https://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/json.html
https://domainbigdata.com/publictech.ltd/mj/DvB3cB7hrIOpcki2ODKWXg
Best probable email: robb@weblaws.org
Maybe: founders@public.law
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