Live data stream
Outlier Detection captures a live datastream in Atom / xml format from www.legislation.gov.uk using the Open Government Licence v3.0. The atom documents are published multiple times a day (depending on the volume of legislation) and Outlier Detection checks them every 15 minutes.
| The High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) (Qualifying Authorities) Order 2017 | published: 2017-02-24T17:08:53.275Z | updated: 2017-02-24T23:59:59Z |
| The High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017 (Commencement) Regulations 2017 | published: 2017-02-24T17:03:30.247Z | updated: 2017-02-24T23:59:59Z |
legislation.gov.uk is one of a generation of web sites that employ an architecture of linked data, allowing easy and consistent access to their repositories. The code, 'legislation parser' that captures the data feed and generates the hourly frequency of legislation that is used by Outlier Detection was written by artist and PhD candidate Tom Keene and is freely available at github under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This is a live snippet of the Atom code for one the current bills that Outlier Detection uses: