More and more primary law (court cases and actual laws passed by governments at any level, as opposed to secondary law such as treatises explaining the meaning of primary law) is available on the web. In the United States, most federal and state governments and court systems make it a regular practice to publish this information on the web on their own dot gov websites. Governments typically have laws requiring that all laws be available where citizens can see them, and doing so on the web costs…

University of Maryland semantic web researcher Jim Hendler (XML 2005 attendees will remember his keynote speech in Atlanta) closed a recent mindswap weblog entry by writing this: