THOMAS

THOMAS was the first online database of United States Congress legislative information. A project of the Library of Congress, it was launched in January 1995 at the inception of the 104th Congress and retired on July 5, 2016; it has been superseded by Congress.gov.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Contents

The resource was a comprehensive, Internet-accessible source of information on the activities of Congress, including:

• bills and resolutions
  • texts
  • summaries and status
  • voting results, including how individual members voted
• Congressional Record, including the daily digest
• presidential nominations
• treaties

The database was named after Thomas Jefferson, who was the third President of the United States.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> "THOMAS" was an acronym for "The House [of Representatives] Open Multimedia Access System".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The website allowed users to share legislative information via several social networking sites,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and there were proposals for an application programming interface.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Library of Congress Legislative Data Challenge

The Library of Congress created the Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso challenge<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in July 2013 to create representations of selected US bills using the most recent Akoma Ntoso standard within a couple months for a $5,000 prize,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Legislative XML Data Mapping challenge in September 2013<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to produce a data map for US bill XML and UK bill XML to the most recent Akoma Ntoso schema within a couple months for a $10,000 prize.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• In December 2013, the Library of Congress announced "Jim Mangiafico as the winner of our first legislative data challenge, Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso and the $5,000 prize".<ref name="First Legislative Data Challenge Winner Announced">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• In February 2014, Jim Mangiafico and Garrett Schure as the winners of the Library of Congress Second Legislative Data Challenge.<ref name="Jim Mangiafico and Garrett Schure Announced as Winners of the Second Library of Congress Legislative Data Challenge">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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External links

• THOMAS Template:Webarchive (now redirects to Congress.gov)

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