A new version 02 of the URN:LEX standard for legal identifiers has been posted. The new version is dated 1 October 2010, and expires 4 April 2011.
The new version has been published by Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG/CNR); Italy, National Centre for ICT in Public Administration (CNIPA); Brazil, Federal Senate, IT Department (PRODASEN); and Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (LII).
The contacts for the draft are Professor Enrico Francesconi & Pierluigi Spinosa, both of ITTIG/CNR, and Caterina Lupo of CNIPA.
According to the new version:
The purpose of the “lex” namespace is to assign an unequivocal identifier, in standard format, to documents that are sources of law. The identifier is conceived so that its construction depends only on the characteristics of the document itself and is, therefore, independent from the document’s on-line availability, its physical location, and access mode.
The authors have also developed a URN schema handler which can be used in conjunction with URN:LEX.
Tags: Enrico Francesconi, Legal descriptive metadata, Legal identifiers, Legal metadata, Tom Bruce, URN schema handler, URN:LEX
April 8, 2011 at 2:36 am |
Now available: New version 3 of URN:LEX: Uniform Resource Name Namespace for Sources of Law http://bit.ly/fZqhqG legal metadata