Call for Papers: Legislative XML Workshop

Monday, 10. 29. 2007  –  Category: Call for Papers

There will be a Workshop on Legislative XML on december 15, 2007 in Leiden, the Netherlands, in conjunction with the JURIX conference. The latest MetaLex CEN proposals will also be presented at this workshop.

Position papers of up to 2 pages on aspects relating to the following subjects are very welcome:

  1. Unique identification of (parts of) sources of law, URI’s and URN’s, meaningful identifiers versus meaningless
  2. Lowest grain size of identifiable elements in sources of law, what are principles or heuristics for determining a sensible grain size level
  3. What set of metadata should be part of such an interchange format
  4. How to link (external) models or interpretations of the meaning of sources of law to the original sources
  5. Conceptualization of the domain of legislating and legislation, i.e. an ontology of the task of legal drafting and its products

Please send two page position papers, preferably in PDF format, by email to winkels@uva.nl. The deadline for submission of position papers: 23rd November 2007.

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