gitlaw-au

Ever wondered what it would look like if Australian Legislation was available in git / Github?

• New Zealand has done it
• Germany has done it

Picking up from where the original by xlfe ended.

Browse current acts in Markdown (As of 5 July 2015)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Status

Text is extracted, but there's still some weird formatting and additional style info, and still missing much of the structure (no table conversion is attempted)

• Get a list of all current acts and their ComLawID acts_current.txt
• Update spider.py to correctly crawl the legislation for updates.
• Get a list of all the RTF/DOC/DOCx versions and volumes of those acts details_current.json
• Download all the relevant RTF/DOC/DOCx files Amazon S3
• Extract structure of documents and convert to Markdown (in progress)
• Read DOCx format and extract indent and font sizes
• Convert these to markdown indents and heading size
• Extract table structures
• Write to markdown using historical git commit based on date legislation came into force
• Access historical / series of act for history
• Create presentation site
• Automate/schedule the gathering, conversion, and upload of new acts.

Files

• spider.py Crawl legislation by year and get the ComLawID
• download.py Get the legislation detail form the ComLawID
• convert.py The actual conversion to Markdown (messy!)