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Estrella

January 16th, 2006

The Leibniz Center for Law will coordinate a new European IST research project called Estrella (IST-4-027655). This acronym stands for European project for Standardized Transparant Representations in order to Extend Legal Accessibility. The aim of the Estrella project is to develop and validate an open, standards-based platform allowing public administrations to develop and deploy comprehensive legal knowledge management solutions, without becoming dependent on proprietary products of particular vendors. Estrella will support, in an integrated way, both legal document management and legal knowledge-based systems. It provides a complete solution for improving the quality and efficiency of the determinative processes of public administration requiring the application of complex legislation and other legal sources. Estrella will facilitate a market of interoperable components for legal knowledge-based systems, allowing public administrations and other users to freely choose among competing development environments, inference engines, and other tools.

The main technical objective of the Estrella project is to develop a Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF), building upon emerging XML-based standards of the Semantic Web, including RDF and OWL. Our aim is to ensure thjat the Metalex standard will be compatible with this Legal Knowledge Interchange format.

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