Open Laws Foundation: Most legal-data projects scrape statutes and dump them into a convenient format. That throws away the structure: cross-references, temporal validity, the relationships between acts. And that structure is the part that actually makes legislation useful to machines. We do the opposite. Read the spec GitHub ↗︎

Stable identifier olf:it/legge/2019/123/art_3

• A profile of Akoma Ntoso (the OASIS legal-document standard), not a new format. We speak the language the EU, the UN, and national gazettes already speak.
• A set of per-jurisdiction adapters that ingest official sources and emit validated Akoma Ntoso.
• A semantic, type-aware diff for legislation: it tells you what kind of change happened. Text amended, entry into force changed, cosmetic fix.
• A conformance suite that defines what “correct” means, so independent contributors stay interoperable without ever talking to each other.

What we are not

• Not another scraped Markdown/PDF corpus.
• Not a replacement for Akoma Ntoso, ELI, or any national system.
• Not (yet) a legal entity. This is an open-source project. We do not solicit or accept donations on behalf of a “foundation” that has not been incorporated.