Did you hear about LEOS (Legislation Editing Open Software)?
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date: 11/03/2021
Are you dealing with the edition or publication of legal texts? Are you looking for an easy-to-use editing tool that provides guidance and quality control for writers?
Then check out LEOS - Legislation Editing Open Software, an open source software delivered under ISA² Action 2016.38 Legislation Interoperability Tools – LegIT.
Drafting new legislation is a complex and time-consuming process involving many actors. This process, with increasing pan-European dimensions, can be made easier with LEOS, a free tool that facilitates the editing/reviewing of legislative texts and generates legislation produced in a format supporting interoperability between European institutions and between Member States. LEOS enables users to create and draft legislative acts via a web user interface, where the document content is stored in an XML format.
For a short introduction to LEOS, you can check our “Getting started” information package.
For more technical details, you can check out the latest LEOS release here.
Last but not least, if you want to hear the feedback of some of the LEOS users, you can check the following reuse stories:
- LEOS as an educational tool for public administrators
- Testing EdiT, the European Commission instance of LEOS
- User from Spain: LEOS will help us make the drafting of legal texts more efficient
LEOS team : LegIT ISA2 action