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 [...]

Status MetaLex and LKIF

Tuesday, 10. 16. 2007  –  Category: Publication

The linked paper gives an update on and overview of two XML standard proposals dealing with two complementary aspects of electronic legislation – the documents themselves as a carrier, and an institutional reality they represent – in a coherent way: MetaLex XML and the Legal Knowledge Interchange format (LKIF). MetaLex XML is well on its [...]