THOMAS was the first online database of United States Congress legislative information.
[1] The resource was a comprehensive, Internet-accessible source of information on the activities of Congress, including: The database was named after Thomas Jefferson, who was the third President of the United States.
[2] "THOMAS" was an acronym for "The House [of Representatives] Open Multimedia Access System".
[3] The website allowed users to share legislative information via several social networking sites,[4] and there were proposals for an application 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 recent Akoma Ntoso schema within a couple months for a $10,000 prize.