On 01/07/2011 09:47, Feargal Hogan wrote:
On 1 Jul 2011, at 09:23, Mark Goodge wrote:
I could do what Bailii are doing for much less than the DoJ are
paying them. So, I reckon, could MySociety.
You may well be correct on the pricing, but it really does depend on
the condition/formats of the data received from the courts.
I'd have to say that getting some sample data would be key to
deciding if a cost-effective process could be built.
The judgments are mostly sent as rtf files, which Bailii converts to
HTML (by means of a rather shonky conversion script that generates
hideous code). The original files themselves are usually on Bailii,
linked from the judgments, so you can grab a few yourself and see how
easy it would be to process them. There is now a standard format for the
rtf files, so it ought to be possible to automate the conversion to a
high degree of accuracy and generate standards-compliant HTML in the
process.
Mark
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