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Article: LEGISINFO: a single window on legislation before parliament.
- Article from:
- Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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As more parliamentary information, including Hansard and the full text of bills, went onto the internet during the 1990s, it became increasingly difficult to find basic information about what was happening in Parliament. To meet this problem the Library of Parliament has developed a web based tool that is now available to everyone on the Parliamentary Internet Site. The development and implementation of this tool, known as LEGISINFO, is described in the following article.
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Before LEGISINFO, research on legislation before Parliament was a frustrating and time-consuming process. The problem was not a lack of data; on the contrary, much relevant ...