Standards are important – they make the Web work, power your e-mail, and they make the law understandable (increasingly to both people and machines). As the Library of Congress’s Emerging Technologies Librarian, Tina Gheen has been working to construct and promote standards in law, whether with the OASIS LegalDocumentML Technical Committee or in coordinating public data challenges to apply the Akoma Ntoso, an open legislative markup framework, to acts of Congress. Standards in law will be key to the usability of open legislative data, and Tina Gheen’s work at the Library of Congress will further that effort.
