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  • Semantic Indexing and Law Dictionary

    Semantic Indexing and Law Dictionary Overview For an explanation about Semantic Indexing and Law dictionary, read Semantic Indexing and Law. About legal dictonaries and definitions, see the law dictionary online. More on the subject: Semantic Web and Law, Semantic Indexing and legal, Semantic Indexing and Law Search and Semantic Indexing and Law news. Two Word…

  • Semantic Indexing and Law

    Semantic Indexing and Law Note: see also Semantic Web and Law, Semantic Indexing and legal, Semantic Indexing and Law Search, Semantic Indexing and Law news and Semantic Indexing and Law dictionary. Semantic Indexing Semantic Indexing is to discover words and phrases that are related in the context of any document or group of documents. Search…

  • LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

    LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas In june 2011 started the drafts for a new subclass of the Library of Congress K classification in the works dealing with the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. As Jolande Goldberg notes the following motivations for the development of this…

  • Topic Maps in the Encyclopedia of Law

    A topic map is a set of topics and associations between them. The set drives navigational and analytical tools. Thus, topic maps may be seen as a generalized way of implementing indexes, glossaries, thesauri, taxonomies, ontologies, and other systems of creating, collecting, curating, and navigating topics and associations that are of interest to communities of…

  • Common Topics

    Common Topics Arbitration Arms Control Bill of Exchange Cemeteries Church Church Properties Common Law Competition law Contracts Conventions Courts Criminal Procedure Customs Law Cybercrime Definitions Dictionaries Disarmament Elections Europe European Union Export Controls Export Law Exports Featured Foregin Policy Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy France GATT History Human Development Human rights Immunities Import Law Information Retrieval…

  • Legal Ontologies

    Legal Ontologies Note: for more information about legal ontologies, read the legal metadata website here. Legal Ontologies are the expression of the metadata section of legal documents according to a formalized ontology language such as OWL. They have proved crucial for representing, processing and retrieving legal information, “Legal ontologies differ from ontologies in other fields…

  • Legal RDF

    Legal RDF Introduction to Legal RDF Legal-RDF was a non-profit organization that was sponsored by software companies and by John McClure, main creator of Legal RDF ontology. It was one of the most significant non-institutional initiatives in the field of legal standardization Legal-RDF was structured so that events relate to the state of a resource.…

  • EnAct

    EnAct Introduction to EnAct EnAct is a comprehensive intelligent legislation drafting, management solution, web-based electronic repository and delivery system that has been built to enable the Tasmanian Government (Australia) to produce, distribute and enable public access to reliable, up-to-date, searchable consolidated Tasmanian legislation (1). At the core of the EnAct system is an SGML database,…

  • Legifrance

    Legifrance Legifrance is the official French online legislation database. It is an in depth resource for French, European and International laws, norms and regulations Legifrance was created in 1998 and completed in 2002, when also changed its name, becoming “the Public Service of Dissemination of the French Law on the Internet”(1). In january 2008 a…

  • LexFind

    LexFind LexFind is an enterprise search tool designed for legal information. It is, basically, a versatile, robust search engine for legal documents. It is able to deal with large sets of documents with variable structures. “LexFind is a project developed by the Institute for federalism of the University of Fribourg. The focus of the project…

  • CHLexML

    CHLexML “CHLexML is a XML schema developed by the SVRI. This XML schema expressly addresses the need for a structured and harmonized data format to store legal acts in Switzerland. CHLexML proves that this need was correctly recognized in Switzerland. However, it is not known whether it is already in use or will be in…

  • AKOMA NTOSO

    AKOMA NTOSO Introduction to AKOMA NTOSO AKOMA NTOSO (Architecture for Knowledge-Oriented Management of African Normative Texts using Open Standards and Ontologies) is an open legal XML standard for parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents. It means “linked hearts” in Akan language of West Africa. The role of Akoma Ntoso is “to mark up legal and legislative…

  • NormeinRete

    Hello NormeinRete Introduction to NormeinRete Normeinrete or “Norme in rete” means “norms, laws and regulations put online” and it started in 1999. One of its resuslts, the web portal and content aggregator “Normeinrete.it”was an official websitee of the Italian Government that was first announced in 1999 and offered for years semantic legislative information online services…

  • LexDania

    LexDania Introduction In the last 20 years, large scale electronic collections of legal documents are increasing their dissemination in the public administrations, especially in those entitled to provide official and legal publication of the legal resources. In most countries, there is a purpose to produce a digital counterpart of their traditional representation on paper. But…

  • SDU BWB

    SDU BWB The Dutch SDU BWB standard. This XML format is currently used for encoding the laws in the Dutch Basiswettenbestand (BWB) database, that is a large database containing almost all Dutch laws and decisions. SDU BWB, as an XML format, is used for encoding the laws in the Dutch Basiswettenbestand (BWB) database, which is…