how I built the largest open database of Australian law
In plain words
This project documents the creation of Australia's largest open database of legal information. Built as a development tool, it provides accessible structured data on Australian law for researchers, developers, and legal professionals who need comprehensive reference material. The database represents a significant effort to make legal information openly available rather than restricted behind paywalls or proprietary systems.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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I'm a pro bono attorney, and have been really interested in making the law easier to understand. I also see a ton of government resources online in varying degrees of usability. And for sure, there's no interoperability between them. This is an international legal dictionary, an experiment in improving the situation: glossaries are scraped and parses from official sources: https://github.com/public-law/open-gov-crawlers. The results are saved as datasets in well formed JSON with Dublin Core metadata: https://github.com/public-law/datasets I add Library…
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