[Open-Legislation] standards for law in IT systems

Thu May 15 19:50:40 UTC 2014

Thank you Francis and Robert!
Very helpful - will take a look!

Best, Clemens

2014-05-15 21:48 GMT+02:00 Robert Richards <robertrichards03 at gmail.com>:

> There are a large number. A few dozen are listed here:
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/rcr5122/Metadata.html
>
> Regarding metadata models, the Legal Information Institute Legislative
> Metadata Model is much discussed recently:
> http://blog.law.cornell.edu/metasausage/downloads-and-related-information/
>
> Regarding structural metadata standards for legislation, among the most
> prominent is Akoma Ntoso    http://www.akomantoso.org/   which is the
> basis for the proposed OASIS LegalDocML standard:
> https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legaldocml/
>
> CEN MetaLex   http://www.metalex.eu/    is an XML-based interchange
> format for XML-based legislative structural metadata formats.
>
> Regarding identifiers, others include LEX identifier (called the "LEX
> Naming Convention")  (specification:
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-spinosa-urn-lex/     ;
> implementations:
> http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/francesconi-lex-naming-convention-implementations/ ), and Akoma Ntoso identifier  (called "Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention")
> (specification:
> http://www.akomantoso.org/release-notes/akoma-ntoso-3.0-schema/naming-conventions-1    ; implementations:
> http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/palmirani-akoma-ntoso-implementations/
> )
>
> Regarding citations, a legal citation markup standard is in development:
> OASIS LegalCiteM:   https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalcitem/
>
> In the Zotero world, regular Zotero    https://www.zotero.org/
>  supports several legal citation formats, as does Multilingual Zotero:
> http://citationstylist.org/
>
> Several substantive legal citation formats are at:
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/rcr5122/Citation.html
>
> Regarding markup standards for formal representations of legal rules, the
> OASIS LegalRuleML standard is in development:
> https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalruleml/    . It is designed to
> be compatible in particular with the OASIS LegalDocML standard noted above.
>
> Regarding knowledge representation,several ontologies, standards, and
> formats are at:  http://www.personal.psu.edu/rcr5122/Ontologies.html
>  and Fabio Vitali and colleagues have recently developed a new one: ALLOT,
> for entities referenced in legal documents:
> http://akn.web.cs.unibo.it/allot/
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Clemens Wass <clemens at wass.at> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> a quick question: which standards do exist when it comes to law in IT
>> systems?
>> There are of course:
>>
>>    - ELI for legislation
>>    - ECLI for case law
>>
>> For papers and books (not limited to the legal area of course):
>>
>>    - DOI
>>    - ISSN
>>    - ISBN
>>
>> For citations:
>>
>>    - BibTex does not have entries for legislation or case law, right?
>>
>> Which other standards are important?
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Best, Clemens
>>
>>
>>
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