A request for comments — with submission deadline of 22 February 2012 — on a proposed charter for the OASIS LegalDocumentML Technical Committee — convened by Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani of Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche «Antonio Cicu» and CIRSFID — has been issued by the OASIS open standards organization, according to an 8 February 2012 post to the tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org listserv.
According to the proposed charter:
The objectives of the LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) Technical Committee (TC) are:
- to promote a common legal document standard (based on Akoma Ntoso-UN [. . .]) that promotes world-wide best practices for the use of XML within a Parliament’s, Assembly’s or Congress’s document management processes, within courts’ and tribunals’ judgment management systems, and generally in legal documents including contracts;
- to collect requirements from the community of the stakeholders who create, manage and use legislative and legal documents (editors, libraries, public institutions, tribunals, publishers, etc.) in order to extend and refine the standard;
- to promote growth of a community that supports the stakeholders in order to adopt LegalDocML locally;
- to provide technical specifications and documentation in order to support the developers of tools and software applications relying on LegalDocML.
For background information, please see Professor Dr. Palmirani and Professor Dr. Fabio Vitali’s recent article, Akoma-Ntoso for Legal Documents.
For more information on the charter or the technical committee, please see the proposed charter.
HT Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani.
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February 12, 2012 at 4:26 pm |
An ambitious enterprise, living as it does at the intersection of so many disparate semantic spaces!
But filled with exciting prospects.
Personally, I’d love to see a bridge across the temporal space, between archival records and “semantic web”, by whatever name.
February 13, 2012 at 3:18 pm |
Would it not make more sense to develop a semantic standard, and then derive the XML from that? Watching people trying to derive XML mark-up for business concepts without a clear, technology-neutral view of the business semantics they are trying to implement is like watching people blundering about in the dark.