The German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz) provides almost all current federal legislation free of charge on the Internet. The paper edition of the Bundesgesetzblatt contains the official version of the laws.
The source data is converted into XML by a program and stripped of superfluous markup and formatting. No databases are used.
The output data prepared in this way is the basis for a current research project on the automatic recognition and linking of the contents of laws.
The laws are available in German. The workflow provided here accesses this data. It can be used for statistical purposes or for tokenization, for example.