Jurix 2007 Workshop on Legislative XML
As part of the Jurix 2007 conference in Leiden, a Workshop on Legislative XML will be held on Saturday, December 15, 2007. You can download the workshop program through the link on the right hand side of this window.
- Background
- More and more legal documents are available electronically, but all are in different formats (PDF, HTML, XML), published by different organizations, in different countries, jurisdictions, legal traditions and languages. They use different ways to refer internally and externally to other (legal) documents, their versioning information and other metadata differ, if present at all, etc. This makes it very hard to design and build general software accessing these sources and providing more advanced services based on these sources.
- Since it is very unlikely – and perhaps undesirable – that all countries and organizations will use one standard way of representing their legal data, a common open interchange format seems a sensible solution. With that goal in mind, the Leibniz Center for Law initiated the development of MetaLex as a first proposal for such an interchange format in 2001. MetaLex is currently undergoing a CEN standardisation process. It is input to the CEN workshop on an Open XML interchange format for legal and legislative resources . The MetaLex/CEN schema is based on best practices from amongst others the previous versions of the MetaLex schema, the African Akoma Ntoso schema, and the Italian Norme in Rete DTD’s. A first version of the MetaLex/CEN schema was adopted as part of a CEN workshop agreement on 6 December 2006. This schema is still very abstract and many details need to be worked out.
- In this workshop we would like to discuss solutions for open problems in an interchange XML format for sources of law. Examples of these problems are:
- Unique identification of (parts of) sources of law, URI’s and URN’s, meaningful identifiers versus meaningless
- Lowest grain size of identifiable elements in sources of law, what are principles or heuristics for determining a sensible grain size level
- What set of metadata should be part of such an interchange format
- How to link (external) models or interpretations of the meaning of sources of law to the original sources
- Conceptualization of the domain of legislating and legislation, i.e. an ontology of the task of legal drafting and its products
- Paper submission
- Please send two page position papers, preferably in PDF format, by email to: winkels@uva.nl.
- Time schedule
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- Deadline submission position papers: 23rd November 2007
- Notification of acceptance: 30th November 2007
- Organization
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- Dr. Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam
- Dr. Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG – CNR, Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques, Italian National Research Council
