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THOMAS was the first online database ofUnited States Congress legislative information. A project of theLibrary of Congress, it was launched in January 1995 at the inception of the104th Congress and retired on July 5, 2016; it has been superseded byCongress.gov.[1]
The resource was a comprehensive, Internet-accessible source of information on the activities of Congress, including:
The database was named afterThomas Jefferson, who was the thirdPresident of the United States.[2] "THOMAS" was anacronym for "The House [of Representatives] Open Multimedia Access System".[3]
The website allowed users to share legislative information via severalsocial networking sites,[4] and there were proposals for anapplication programming interface.[5]
The Library of Congress created the Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso challenge[6] 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,[7] and the Legislative XML Data Mapping challenge in September 2013[8] to produce a data map for US bill XML and UK bill XML to the most recentAkoma Ntoso schema within a couple months for a $10,000 prize.[9]
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