Congress Online: Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and Their Representatives
Congress Online: Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and Their Representatives
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th Edition)
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th Edition)
Beyond accuracy: what data quality means to data consumers
Journal of Management Information Systems
Do-it-yourself transparency: emerging methods of congressional information dissemination
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
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Since the 1990s many legislatures have made their documents and activities available to the public through the Internet. While this initial phase of transparency met some needs, it is no longer sufficient simply to make legislative documents available electronically. Legislative systems that seek to be authoritative must meet the highest possible standard in at least five key areas: 1) accuracy 2) timeliness 3) completeness 4) clarity and 5) context. This paper applies these criteria to the evaluation and design of legislative websites. First, an evaluation of the European Parliament and the United States Congress systems reveals how some of these standards are being met. Second, a case study illustrates how the five criteria have been built into the XML design of U.S. congressional legislative data. In conclusion, we discuss the implications for legislature transparency.