What problem does it solve?
This skill solves the fragmentation of UK legislative records by providing a unified method to reconcile Bills, Acts, and SIs across disparate sources like the Bills API, the Parliament Thesaurus, and historical Hansard.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Cross-Source Reconciliation: Maps bill identifiers across modern APIs, SPARQL stores, and historical archives to create a comprehensive identity graph.
- Historical Gap Filling: Provides strategies for indexing pre-2015 bills and failed legislation that are otherwise missing from modern structured datasets.
- Use Case: Use this skill to build a complete timeline of a specific piece of legislation, linking its initial proposal as a Bill to its final status as an Act, including all relevant debate stages and parliamentary papers.
Quick Start
Use the skill-bill to generate a crosswalk graph for the Elections Bill by reconciling its thesaurus LEG term with the live Bills API data.