Tag: Semantic Web
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Legal Open Data
Legal Open Data Related Issues Legislation Legislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it. (Another source of law is judge-made law or case law. ) Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly…
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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…
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Conservation of Legislation
Conservation of Legislation In the United Kigdom, a number of government commissions and parliamentary committees have attempted to revise and reorganise the statute book: •One Act of 1867 alone repealed over 1300 statutes. •In 1875 a select committee was appointed to consider “whether any and what means can be adopted to improve the manner and…
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Acts Structure
Acts Structure Acts regular structure in former British Colonies Legislation in the United Kingdom is similar in many ways to the legislation of the UK and most other jurisdictions that are former British colonies, including “Australian jurisdictions, Canada and its provinces, and the United States. All Acts are divided into numbered sections (subordinate legislation variously…
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eLaw
eLaw Introduction “The eLaw Project aims at a reform of legal text production, creating one continuous electronic production channel with a uniform layout prepared on the same electronic text basis from draft to publication (promulgation) on the Internet. The workflow system includes government bills, committee reports, legal enactments of the Nationalrat and decisions of the…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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XML Standards for Legislation
XML Standards for Legislation Introduction to Standards for Legislation: Legal XML Extensive research efforts (specially from the AI and Law community) has been devoted in the last decades for developing and modeling aspects of legal rules and regulations. New rule languages in the legal domain were created, or just adjusted existing ones. Examples are SBVR,…
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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…