Show HN: International Legal Dictionary https://ift.tt/ZLOTWJq
Show HN: International Legal Dictionary I'm a pro bono attorney, and have been really interested in making the law easier to understand. I also see a ton of government resources online in varying degrees of usability. And for sure, there's no interoperability between them. This is an international legal dictionary, an experiment in improving the situation: glossaries are scraped and parses from official sources: https://ift.tt/FS9nmXp . The results are saved as datasets in well formed JSON with Dublin Core metadata: https://ift.tt/xMluIBH I add Library of Congress subject headings to the sources, to enable filtering (still to come). The web app is basically an old-school mashup, which I've always liked. Another experiment is using the Dale-Chall readability formula to improve the reader's experience. Here's an example of it at work: https://ift.tt/dVLNwit This is an experiment, using readability as a relative metric. I.e., not extracing an absolute grade-level score