Today I learnt that the National Archives hopes to recruit up to 50 volunteers to update legislation.gov.uk.
Legislation.gov.uk is the government-provided online source for legislation in the UK, managed by the National Archive in Kew. According to an article in the Law Society Gazette*, it is not as current as its commercial rivals Lexis Library and Westlaw because the current editorial team don't have the capacity to constantly update it, and there is no money to recruit more staff.
John Sheridan, head of legislative services at the National Archives, hopes to recruit up to 50 volunteers to bring the database up-to-date by 2015. The volunteers need to have an understanding of how legislation works, but they don't have to be laywers.
*Full article in the Law Society Gazette:
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/opinion/joshua-rozenberg/the-national-archives-recruiting-volunteers-update-statute-book
I read about this on the Inner Temple Library's current awareness blog:
http://www.innertemplelibrary.com/
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