Retrieve UK legislation as Linked Data via content negotiation and RDF serialization.
npx skills add https://github.com/danbri/forgetmenot --skill tna-legislation
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: tna-legislation Source: https://github.com/danbri/forgetmenot/tree/main/skills/tna-legislation Command: npx skills add https://github.com/danbri/forgetmenot --skill tna-legislation
This skill solves the difficulty of programmatically accessing, validating, and querying the official UK statute book, which is often locked behind complex content negotiation or restricted SPARQL endpoints.
Use the tna-legislation skill to fetch the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 as RDF data by running the provided fetch script with the appropriate legislative slug.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
You can fetch UK legislation as linked data by using content negotiation to retrieve RDF/XML or Turtle serializations from The National Archives. The skill automates discovery via Atom feeds and parses the results using rdflib.
You can run cross-Act SPARQL queries by materializing fetched RDF/XML slices into a local SPARQL endpoint. This bypasses remote access restrictions and allows complex cross-Act analysis using rdflib.
Yes, rdflib is required to parse UK statute RDF data and handle RDF/XML parsing alongside Turtle conversion for local data modeling. Python 3 is also required to run the provided processing scripts.
Yes, you can validate the structure of retrieved UK legal data by applying ShEx shapes to the fetched RDF. This ensures the integrity of the legislative data before materializing it locally for SPARQL querying.
The best way to analyze legislative amendment history is to fetch the Act's RDF data, materialize it locally, and run SPARQL queries to map the legislative changes. This avoids restricted remote endpoints and enables comprehensive cross-Act analysis.
Querying remote SPARQL endpoints for UK legislation often fails due to invitation-only access restrictions. Materializing fetched RDF data locally creates an unrestricted searchable endpoint, bypassing these remote limitations for cross-Act analysis.
OpenLinkSoftwareGenerate RDF-Turtle knowledge graphs from file or http(s) URLs.
danbriExecute SPARQL 1.1 queries against the UK Parliament DDP graph.
sparq-orgValidate RDF data against SHACL shapes and generate detailed reports.
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