SurveyToo much law is still locked in scanned pages.
ApproachA scanned page can be seen. Its text cannot be searched.
ReadingCodify finds the text, headings and sections.
ResolutionFind a section. Cite it. Check the original page.
Nine hundred acts, once every citation can be followed. The clusters are subject areas, and the lines between them are what a graph makes visible.One tangle of overlapping instruments, as a consolidation would draw them together: a single current text, with the rest kept behind it.
Illustrative corpus.
One amendment. One exact destination.
An illustrative amendment adds “including in accessible formats” to section 5(1). The connection identifies both the affected provision and the instrument responsible for the change.
In this illustration, the original wording dates from 14 May 1992. The accessible-formats amendment takes effect on 1 June 2001. A dated record preserves both versions and the instrument responsible for the change.
See what an amendment changes.From the highlighted source law · illustrative amendment
The amending instrument
Public Access Amendment Act In section 5(1), after “free of charge”, insert “, including in accessible formats”.
Amending instruction → § 5(1)
amends § 5(1)
The affected provision
Right of access to the official text
Every person shall have the right of access to the official text of any law in force, in a form that is complete, current and free of charge, including in accessible formats.
Public Access to Legislation Ordinance · § 5(1) The new words stay linked to the law that introduced them.
The libraryOne readable law, kept in view as the collection grows.
The collectionEvery law gets the same treatment. References connect them.
The wholeTogether, the laws show how the state works, searchable with every source kept.
The effectFollow the amendment. See the changed words.
The domainsLaws cluster into subjects, found from their structure and their language.
The tangleSeveral laws often govern the same thing.
One textA lawmaker draws them into one text. A simpler statute book, and surer implementation.
Illustrative translation
One text. Every language.
Translation notes
Translating
Consistency audit
Source · Atlantis · English
art_1
Translation notes
amending instrument→instrument modificatifdefined term
official text→النص الرسميdefined term
in force→en vigorterm of art
commencement→entrada en vigorfalse friend · not “comienzo”
the Gazette→Ведомостиnamed entity
shall→wajibdeontic convention
the Minister→le ministrenamed entity
register of legislation→سجل التشريعاتdefined term
Working from 8 terms
Arabic Zerzura
0%0 of 24 sections
A · clean
art_1المادة ١
French Ys
0%0 of 24 sections
A · clean
art_1Article 1
Spanish Quivira
0%0 of 24 sections
B · advisory
art_1Artículo 1
Russian Kitezh
0%0 of 24 sections
A · clean
art_1Статья 1
Indonesian Langkasuka
0%0 of 24 sections
A · clean
art_1Pasal 1
Numbers and sentinels · 100%
Terminology · matches the notes
Clauses · counts agree
Unofficial machine translation. The original-language text is the sole binding version.
Read whole. Terms first.
The act is read whole and its terms fixed before a word is translated.
The discipline of the UN’s translators, at machine speed.
Section by section, in parallel.
Article 1 stays Article 1 in every language.
Each section is keyed to its number, so headings, numbering and citations survive.
Audited and aligned.
Checked for every number, term and clause.
Unofficial until a jurist signs it off. The original text stays binding.