@inproceedings{09fed40501ea4624b9ac38d6c95cfe84,
title = "Legislative Information Websites: Designing Beyond Transparency",
abstract = "Since the 1990s many legislatures have made their documents and activities available to the public through the Internet. While this initial phase of transparency met some needs, it is no longer sufficient simply to make legislative documents available electronically. Legislative systems that seek to be authoritative must meet the highest possible standard in at least five key areas: 1) accuracy 2) timeliness 3) completeness 4) clarity and 5) context. This paper applies these criteria to the evaluation and design of legislative websites. First, an evaluation of the European Parliament and the United States Congress systems reveals how some of these standards are being met. Second, a case study illustrates how the five criteria have been built into the XML design of U.S. congressional legislative data. In conclusion, we discuss the implications for legislature transparency.",
keywords = "XML, case study, data design, data quality, information retrieval, legislative websites",
author = "Washington, {Anne L.} and Griffith, {Jeffrey C.}",
note = "Funding Information: Detailed findings from that study, which was made possible by a grant from the Fulbright Foundation, can be found on the website of the European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation, which served as the host sponsor for this research. [See http://www.ecprd.europarl.europa.eu/ecprd/getfile.do?id=5028] The summary below reflects the general findings based on a collective consideration of the several types of websites that serve the Parliament and the Congress. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.; 20th Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, JURIX 2007 ; Conference date: 12-12-2007 Through 15-12-2007",
year = "2007",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "119--128",
editor = "Lodder, {Arno R.} and Laurens Mommers",
booktitle = "Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2007",
}