Explorations by the Legislation Data Working Group

20-21 June, 2019, The National Archives.

As part of the AHRC-funded Computational Archival Science network (February 2019-January 2020), a datathon on Exploring data, investigating methodologies was held in June 2019.

As part of the datathon a working group including King’s Digital Lab TCL team members focused on exploring the visualisation of legislation datasets curated and published by the National Archives at http://www.legislation.gov.uk.

From this page you can access the preliminary visualisations produced by this group. The code is available from this repository branch under Open Government licence v.3.0.

Working group

  • Arianna Ciula (Deputy Director & Senior Research Software Analyst, King’s Digital Lab)
  • Ginestra Ferraro (Senior Research Software UX/UI Designer, King’s Digital Lab)
  • Tamara Izzo (Legislation Data Analyst, The National Archives)
  • Jack Roberts (Research Data Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute)
  • Catherine Tabone (Data Manager, The National Archives)
  • Miguel Vieira (Principal Research Software Engineer, King’s Digital Lab)
  • Paul Young (Digital Preservation Specialist/researcher, The National Archives)