What data is expected?
This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.
What data is available
- Does the data exist? Yes
- Is data in digital form? Yes
- Publicly available? Yes(as Gesetze im Internet
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? Yes (HTML, PDF, XML, EPUB)
- Available in bulk? Yes
- Openly licensed? Yes(Here)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
Details
Laws are not subject to copyright as per §5 UrhG (German copyright act). According to the homepage of gesetze-im-internet.de and to govdata.de, the data can be used free of charge. "Die bereitgestellten Rechtsnormen sind in allen zur Verfügung gestellten Formaten zur freien Nutzung und Weiterverwendung zugänglich gemacht". The table of contents of gesetze-im-internet.de is available in bulk from https://www.govdata.de/suchen/-/details/gesetze-im-internet as one XML-file. http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gii-toc.xml Not all laws are provided timely, see https://www.google.com/search?q=site:gesetze-im-internet.de+%22noch+nicht+ber%C3%BCcksichtigt%22&espv=213&es_sm=93&biw=1920&bih=1043&ei=N6KEUqXBM8mYtAbP74G4DQ&start=0&sa=N
Contributors
Reviewers
- Daniel Dietrich
Submitters
- Mathias Schindler
- Joris/Michael
- Maximilian Heimstädt
- Jan-Ole Beyer
- Daniel Dietrich
- profemo
- Dominik Moritz