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.