Legal Informatics and Management of Legislative Documents

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www.ictparliament.org/resources/WP002_legislativeinformatics.pdf

Abstract
This report aims at providing an overview of the state of the art and of the prospects of the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the legislative domain, in particular concerning the management of legislative documents. After a brief introduction on legal informatics, we focus on legislative informatics and identify the challenges it faces nowadays, in the framework of the Internet and the (semantic) Web. We then describe the evolution of the ICT-based management of legislative documents and identify and evaluate the emergent approaches, focusing on those based on open standards. The report is completed by two appendixes: the first reviews initiatives pertaining to the standard-based management of legal sources, the second reviews initiatives pertaining to semantic resources for legislation.

See also:

Legislative XML Summer School 2008: "Drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative documents" at http://www.one-lex.eu/Activities/summerschool/legislativexml.html

Main topics

·         Markup languages and web technologies

·         Principles of legislative markup at European and extra European level

·         Applications and tools for managing legislative documents

·         Legislative norms in the Information Society

·         Legislative ontology and Legislative quality standards

·         Logical identification of legislative texts

·         Semantic structure of normative texts

·         Legislative standards in legislative process

·         Models of legal contents

·         E-legislation

Sponsoring Institution

·         CIRSFID, Faculty of law, University of Bologna, Bologna (www.cirsfid.unibo.it)

·         European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence (www.eui.eu)

·         Leibniz Centre for Law, University of Amsterdam (www.leibnizcenter.org)

·         ITTIG-CNR, Florence (www.ittig.cnr.it)

·         Italian Parliament (www.parlamento.it)

·         Global Centre for ICT in Parliament (www.ictparliament.org)

·         ONE-LEX Marie-Curie Chair (www.one-lex.eu)

Other relevant documents:

Legislative Documents in XML at the United States House of Representatives (2007): http://xml.house.gov/

Drafting Using XML at the US House of Representatives at http://xml.house.gov/drafting.htm

United States Congress: XML for Legislative Documents (2002), http://xml.coverpages.org/usCongressLegislation.html

How the US Federal Government is Using XML. An Overview of Selected US Federal Agency Efforts (2003): http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/papers/05-01-04/05-01-04.pdf

Formex, XML at EU level
http://publications.europa.eu/procorner/tools/index_en.htm

NB: Formex describes the format for the exchange of data between the Publication Office and its contractors. In particular, it defines the logical markup for documents which are published in the different series of the Offical Journal of the European Union. http://formex.publications.europa.eu/general/formex-site-map.htm
 

On this blog: Quality of drafting EU legislation: an agreement nine years ago
http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/2007/08/quality-of-draf.html

 

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