http://legacy.metalex.eu XML Standard for the Markup of Legal Sources Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:48:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have set-up an OpenRDF Sesame repository on our server, which will enable us to develop elaborate SemanticWeb services on top of the MetaLex standard. In the meantime, the MetaLex examples from the examples section have been loaded into the repository and can be queried either through the SPARQL/SeRQL endpoint ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/sparql-endpoint-for-metalex-examples The linked paper gives an update on and overview of two XML standard proposals dealing with two complementary aspects of electronic legislation – the documents themselves as a carrier, and an institutional reality they represent – in a coherent way: MetaLex XML and the Legal Knowledge Interchange format (LKIF). MetaLex ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/status-metalex-and-lkif There will be a Workshop on Legislative XML on december 15, 2007 in Leiden, the Netherlands, in conjunction with the JURIX conference. Position papers of up to 2 pages on aspects relating to the following subjects are very welcome: Unique identification of (parts of) sources of law, URI’s and URN’s, meaningful ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/legislative-xml-workshop The Dutch have recently decided to pull the plug on e-voting without voter-verified paper ballots. A final blow was dealt yesterday when a court in the Netherlands ruled that the use of e-voting machines in recent Dutch elections was unlawful. Not just the Dutch, but also for instance the UK, ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/back-to-red-pencils The teaching materials used in the Legislative XML Summer School (LeX) European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence (Italy) are available online. The LeX school is an intensive, 6-day program aimed at providing knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, an understanding of their impact in the ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/online-teaching-materials 10-15 September 2007 European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence (Italy) The LeX school is an intensive, 6-day program aimed at providing knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, an understanding of their impact in the different phases of the legislative process, awareness of the tools based on ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/legislative-xml-summer-school-lex The official first CEN workshop agreement was published on the CEN website as CWA 15710. The new CEN MetaLex prenorm differs significantly from the current MetaLex 1.3 schema, and is from this moment on the official MetaLex version. Go to the workshop website for more information. http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/metalexcen-workshop-agreement Legal Atlas is a tool for viewing both spatial regulations and the associated geospatial information in the form of maps. It is a showcase of how MetaLex integration with existing standards, such as GML and OWL, can result in robust and feature-rich knowledge management solutions. Please read the included license. Legal ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/legal-atlas-09b The Estrella project delivered the first specification of the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF). LKIF uses MetaLex as a standard for sources of law, and participates in the MetaLex CEN workshop to align MetaLex and LKIF. LKIF is used to represent the meaning of sources of law, for the purpose ... http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/the-legal-knowledge-interchange-format Read a draft of the CEN Workshop Agreement provisionally adopted on 6 december 2006 here. This draft is unofficial: the official is yet to be published at the CEN website. http://legacy.metalex.eu/general/workshop-agreement-preview