The information on this website is
deprecated, please refer to
http://www.metalex.eu for the current version of MetaLex, developed within the MetaLex CEN
Workshop
The original MetaLex framework was launched in 2002. This website is dedicated to the version 1.3 of this framework. Work in
this context has discontinued. A complete
redesign of MetaLex, including good design practices from the (Italian) Norme in Rete and (pan-African) Akoma Ntoso XML standards, has been
submitted as a proposal for a CEN/ISSS standard. This version is discussed at the CEN Workshop Website.
MetaLex is an open format and a generic and extensible framework for the XML and RDF encoding of the structure and contents of legal documents. It aims to be jurisdiction and language-neutral, and is based on modern publishing concepts like XSLT-based transformation pipelines and emerging Semantic Web standards like RDF and OWL.
The problems MetaLex addresses are shared by many e-Government initiatives in the world. Increasing legal convergence between governments in the European Union, and the growing importance of traffic of people, services, goods, and money over borders of jurisdictions has led to an increased interest for foreign legislation. Publication of legislation, and the development of tools for working with legislation, is however very much a jurisdiction-specific enterprise. What is needed is a jurisdiction-independent XML standard that can be used for exchange, but also as a platform for development of manipulation and search tools.
The objective of the Workshop is to develop a CEN Workshop Agreement on an Open XML interchange format for legal documents. The CEN Workshop Agreement will be based upon MetaLex. Targeted participants will include representatives from legal publishers, public administrations, academia/research groups, and businesses in the area of legal content management. The Workshop Kick-Off meeting will take place on 7 July 2006 in the CEN/CENELEC Meeting Centre in Brussels.
Continue Reading May 12th, 2006
The presentations given at the 4th Legislative XML workshop in Klagenfurt are available online.
Continue Reading May 12th, 2006
The 5th workshop on Legislative XML will be held in Florence (San Domenico di Fiesole), on 14-16 June 2006.
Continue Reading May 12th, 2006
The proceedings of the 3rd Legislative XML Workshop in Furore, Italy, are now online. This is definitely recommended reading.
Continue Reading January 26th, 2006
In February, version 1.3 of the MetaLex schema will be available on this website. In March or April, there will be a meeting in Amsterdam to discuss it.
Continue Reading January 26th, 2006
The Leibniz Center for Law will coordinate a new European project called Estrella. 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 and, of course, compatible with Metalex.
Continue Reading January 16th, 2006
The 4th workshop on Legislative XML will be held in Klagenfurt, 16-18 November 2005
Continue Reading October 25th, 2005
We’ve migrated the MetaLex website to WordPress. Please let us know if you experience any problems. The old pages are still available through this link.
October 20th, 2005
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