Proposal is final: 2010 agreement published

Monday, 03. 22. 2010  –  Category: Information, News, Publication

The request for comments procedure has been closed some time ago. The proposal as found on this website is now for all practical purposes final. Do use it instead of the 2006 agreement!
You will be able to find the filed 2010 agreement at the CEN website, or for instance at the NEN website. Make sure [...]

MetaLex Request for Comments

Tuesday, 09. 29. 2009  –  Category: Call for Participation, News

The new MetaLex proposal has been submitted to CEN, and is open for comments. The specification has been reengineered completely. The substantive changes are in the naming conventions, and in the requirements on metadata encoding. Almost any known method of encoding metadata is now MetaLex-compliant if a GRDDL translation to RDF exists. Users of MetaLex [...]

LeX Summer School 2009

Thursday, 07. 9. 2009  –  Category: News

Good management of legal documents involves at least five aspects:

- Drafting methods, to improve the language and the structure of legislative texts;
- Legal XML standards, to improve the accessibility and interoperability of legal resources;
- Legal ontologies, to capture legal metadata and legal semantics;
- Formal representation of legal contents,to support legal reasoning and argumentation;
- Workflow models, to cope with the lifecycle of legal documentation.

The summer school will address all of these aspects, through multi- and interdisciplinary competences. It will provide and integrated approach to the management of legal documentation, as a core aspect of legislative and administrative innovation.

WORKSHOP ON LEGISLATIVE XML 2008
the Law in the Semantic Web and beyond

December 10th, 2008
Law Faculty, University of Florence (Italy)
within JURIX 2008 Conference (10-13 December 2008)

http://www.ittig.cnr.it/Jurix08

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On September 8th a new meeting of the CEN/ISSS MetaLex workshop will be organized in Florence, Italy, in conjunction wit
h the Legislative XML Summer School. Please register for the coming workshop meeting by sending an email before the 1st of September to Tim Kniep.
The CEN/ISSS MetaLex workshop presentation itself is in principle open [...]

Legislative XML Summer School 2008

Wednesday, 07. 9. 2008  –  Category: Call for Participation, News

“Drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative documents”
8-13 September 2008 – San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence)
Application deadline: 10 July 2008 31 July 2008 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

More information available here.
The school aims at providing knowledge [...]

Update on June 4th!

Tuesday, 05. 13. 2008  –  Category: Call for Participation, Information, News

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On June 4th a new meeting of the CEN/ISSS MetaLex workshop will be organized in Portorož/Portorose (a tourist location at the Slovenian coast) in conjunction with the 2008 e-Justice & e-Law international conference hosted by the EU president Slovenia. If you want to use the facilities of the 2008 e-Justice [...]

June 4, 2008 Call for Participation

Tuesday, 04. 22. 2008  –  Category: Call for Participation, News

The intention is to organize a new meeting on June 4th 2008, to change the existing workshop agreement taking into account the changes proposed in the proposal informally presented at the Jurix 2007 Legislative XML Workshop. A consolidated proposal will be made available in early May. More details will follow. Additional requests for changes to the technical committee are welcome.

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, through the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, will hold the parliamentary forum “Shaping the Information Society: the Role of Parliaments and Legislators” on 14 and 15 May 2008 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Legislative XML Workshop papers available online

Friday, 01. 4. 2008  –  Category: News

The papers of the Jurix 2007 Workshop on Legislative XML are available online here.