4. Workshop on "Legislative XML“ Wednesday, 2005-11-16 Harald Hoffmann (METADAT, Wien), Friedrich Lachmayer (University of Innsbruck) Synopsis of the last

4. Workshop on "Legislative XML“Wednesday, 2005-11-16

Harald Hoffmann (METADAT, Wien), Friedrich Lachmayer (University of Innsbruck)

Synopsis of the last workshops

Workshop on "Legal XML" as practised today in

Denmark, Italy, The Netherlandsand Switzerland

Macolin, 17-19 March 2004

"Legal information in Switzerland: challenges from 4 languages and 27 systems"

Ardita Driza Maurer, Copiur, Federal Office of Justice, Bern

Switzerland being a federal state, laws are adopted by the federal parliament as well as by cantons based on the distribution of

competencies as foreseen by the federal constitution. The Confederation and the 26 cantons publish both chronological and systematic collections of law, in printed form as well as on the Web. The main difficulty relates to the fact that there exist 27 ways of classifying laws in the systematic

collections. Numbering of laws also differs and "multilinguism" complicates the matter a bit further. On top of that, there is absolutely no harmonisation of data models and formats used for Internet publications

by the 27 entities.

Introduction : Processing legal data:general context and problems identified

Title "Legal information in Denmark"

Author

Lise Garkier Hendriksen, Secretariat for legal information,

Danish Ministry of Justice


"Managing the dynamic of the law in time: legal and technological aspects"

Monica Palmirani, Research Centre of History of Law, Philosophy and Sociology of Law and Computer Science and Law (CIRSFID), University of Bologna

The growing number of norms produced to meet the exigencies of our developing society has yielded a legislative morass that is undermining the certainty of the law and bearing down on our economy and on the administration of justice. The need to ensure widespread knowledge of the law has prompted us to develop lawmaking techniques and software systems enabling us to draw up norms in a more proficient fashion than

we are currently able to do and achieve a better grasp of our bodies of law. Nevertheless before to apply these methodologies and automatic tools some principles of theory of law should be fixed inside of a community/country in order to avoid the

proliferation, in automatic or semi-automatic way, to several discrepant law texts. These acts sometime are not valid under the legal theory point of view, however could

be define the corpora "de facto" in the Web.


Proposed solutions (I): Presentation of ongoing projects

"MetaLex: an interchange format for structured legal documents"

Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam

MetaLex provides a generic and easily extensible framework for the XML encoding of the structure and contents of legal

documents. It differs from other existing metadata schemes for legal documents in two respects; It is language and jurisdiction

independent. Because of this it is an ideal candidate for an interchange format for structured legal documents. MetaLex also aims to accommodate uses of XML on legal documents

beyond search and presentation services.


"Access to laws: main projects and overall approach in Italy"

Caterina Lupo, Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione (CNIPA)

In the last years several initiatives have been undertaken in Italy, aiming to allow free access to legal documents through the internet: the project

Normeinrete has defined standards and built a portal upon a co-operative architecture that implements a federative approach; regulatory acts that promulgate these standards have been issued by AIPA (now CNIPA); the main public Italian legislative database, the Court of Cassation's Italgiure Find, has been re-engineered implementing Normeinrete

standards; a mid-term program has been started to automate norms life-cycle including approval and publication phases, the Normeinrete

federative approach extension to the 20 Italian regions has been funded.

"Facilitating the legislative process: legal and technological aspects"

Ib Skovsted Thomsen, Knud Erik Petersen, Folketing – the Danish Parliament

Section 41 in the Danish Constitutional Act lays down that a Bill shall be read three times in the Folketing before it can be adopted. The thoroughness of legislation is

safeguarded also by the committee work which comes between the first and second readings in the Chamber. The first reading is a reading in principle. The details are

examined by the committees and during the second reading the individual sections are discussed and amendments are often made before eventually adopting the entire Bill at

the third reading. Amendments may be introduced either by the committee or by an individual MF. The consolidation of the original bill and the amendments adopted by the Folketing are done manually by legal counsellors serving the Folketing. We have

put up the automation of this consolidation as a specific aim in our XML project.


"CH-Gesetzesdatenbank"Omar Abou Khaled, Mobile information system laboratory, University

of applied sciences of Fribourg

Eventually, the objective of this project is to create a one-stop-shop for accessing Swiss (federal and cantonal) collections of laws published on the Net. The future portal must

allow for comparative search of norms. During its initial phase, researchers will catalogue all types of legal "documents" included in the aforementioned collections and

will make an inventory of the technical means used for their Internet publishing. An XML-based model valid for any legislative document will be proposed and a series of XML-based pilot demonstrations will illustrate the advantages of XML technology in the subject area. Finally, to conclude the initial phase of the project, the specialist team

from the University of applied sciences of Fribourg, will propose some architectural solutions for putting into place the future portal and further integrating it into the very

diverse technological panorama of today's legal publications on the Internet.


Proposed solutions (II): Presentation and discussion of data models, XML schemas,. DTDs, etc., which have been adopted by the aforementioned projects

"Design strategies and data models in the NIR project"

Fabio Vitali, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna

The NIR project aimed at producing data models and global naming schemas for the markup of law texts at all levels of the Italian normative process (local, regional,

national). The choice of using XML and URN has been only the first of a long series of specific design strategies in the project: a clear distinction between legislative data and editorial contributions, separate support for descriptive markup (for existing texts) and

prescriptive markup (for new texts), required global names at all levels(URNs for whole documents, fragment IDs for subparts), etc. Choosing DTDs over XML Schema has been a choice dictated by timing (Schema was not finished at the time), and can be turned over at a moment's notice. But other considerations may end up slowing down

the switch.


"Uniform names for norms adopted in the Italian legal environment"

Pier Luigi Spinosa, Istituto di teoria e tecniche dell'informazione giuridica (ITTIG) - Italian National Research Council (CNR)

In order to facilitate retrieval and navigation between legal documents in a distributed environment, a standard has been defined, within the national project Normeinrete, to

construct a global hypertext (lasting and independent of location on the Web): the identification of the measures through uniform names (URNs). The main

characteristics are: a) a schema for assigning the names, based on the formalised representation of the essential elements of a legal act; b) the possibility to build the uniform name, manually or automatically (by a parser), from the reference; c) the

principles of the resolver service from name to location on the Web.


"Data models in the MetaLex project"

Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam


"Data models in CH-Gesetzesdatenbank project"

Mario Ramalho, Mobile information system laboratory, University of applied sciences of Fribourg


"Data models in the Danish project"

Knud Erik Petersen, Folketing – the Danish Parliament

Proposed solutions (III): Presentation of XML editors

"The NIREditor: an XML specific environment for legislative drafting"

Carlo Biagioli, Enrico Francesconi, Istituto di Teoria e Techniche dell'Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG)

NIREditor is a specific law drafting environment, able to produce legal documents according to the XML standards established within the national Project Norme in rete

(Legislation on the Net) which aims at making easier the retrieval and navigation between legal documents in a distributed environment. The main functions that help the

user to apply such standards and the possible working situations are presented: the transformation of legacy law content into the XML-NIR standards as well as the

composition and organisation of new texts.

Proposed solutions (III): Presentation of XML editors

"Norma-Editor"

Monica Palmirani, Research Centre of History of Law, Philosophy and Sociology of Law and Computer Science and Law (CIRSFID),

University of Bologna

Norma-Editor is an legal drafting editor based on MicrosoftWord environment developed for helping public administration officers to produce acts in line with the XML standard defined inside of NIR project. Norma-Editor permits: (1) to mark in automatic way the old and new texts bringing out XML documents in line with the

DTDs of NIR and building URN names; (2) to detect in automatic way the normative references and support their classification respect the type of action they produce on the

rest of the corpora; (3) to enter the normative texts in the versioning database in a coherent and orderly way; (4) to help to build consolidated acts or in other words to

build the law in force in the time.

Macolin, 17-19 March 2004

Workshop on legislative xmlKobæk Strand, Skælskør,

September 22 – 24, 2004

Workshop on legislative xmlKobæk Strand, Skælskør,

September 22 – 24, 2004

What has happened since we met in Magglingen/Macolin

MetaLex Radboud WinkelsUniversity of Amsterdam

CHLexML .NormeinRete Caterina Lupo

Centro Nazionale per l’informatica nella pubblica amministrazione - CNIPA

Lex Dania XML Knud Erik PetersenThe Folketing

Legislative time management

Vocabulary on dates and time - how to reach a shared understanding of concepts and terminology

Nina KochSecretariat for Legal Information

Legal time management - analysis of possible variantsFriedrich Lachmayer, Guenther Schefbeck, Harald Hoffmann and Helga Stöger

Friedrich Lachmayer,University of Innsbruck


Times and Versions in MetaLex XMLAlexander Boer, Rinke Hoekstra, Radboud Winkels, Tom van Engers and Matthijs Breebaart

Alexander BoerUniversity of Amsterdam

Dates and time in Swiss law & time management in CHLexML

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Dates and time in Danish law & (planned) time management in Lex Dania

Dan Bjerring MOJ, Legal Department &Lise Garkier HendriksenSecretariat for Legal Information

Dates and time in Italian law & time management in NormeInRete

Monica PalmiraniUniversity of Bologna


Moment of Truth –discussion and bookkeeping

Knud Erik Petersen & Britt Thøgersen, The Folketing


Our vocabulary on dates and time - conclusions

Nina KochSecretariat for Legal Information

The use of SGML and XML at the Publications Office

Holger BagolaPublications Office

An Italian appetizer to metadata as a possible subject for future work

Metadata in the current NIR dtd

Fabio Vitali,University of Bologna

The role of metadata for creating and preserving digital documents

Mariella Guercio;University of Urbino

Kobæk Strand, Skælskør, September 22 – 24, 2004

Kobæk Strand, Skælskør, September 22 – 24, 2004

3rd Workshop on legislative xml6 – 8 April 2005, Furore Inn,

Furore (Costa d’Amalfi)

3rd Workshop on legislative xml6 – 8 April 2005, Furore Inn,

Furore (Costa d’Amalfi)

I. Upgrade of ongoing projects sinceKoebek Strand and new presentations

Upgrade of the project CHLexML since Koebek StrandMr Urs Paul Holenstein, Office federal de la justice, service Copiur, Switzerland

Legislative XML in the Irish Parliament – our reasons and our experienceMs Patricia Doran, Public Bills Office Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Leinster House, Ireland

Legal xml/metalex issues in the Netherlands and European (FP6) initiativesMr Winkels Radbound, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I. Upgrade of ongoing projects sinceKoebek Strand and new presentations

Normeinrete and e-legesMs Caterina Lupo, Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione (CNIPA), Italy

Lex Dania since KobaekMr Knud Erik Petersen, Folketing, Denmark

II. Data and time management: a new attempt to agree on common definitions and vocabulary

Time model for managing law in force in a normative system perspectiveMs Monica Palmirani, Research Centre of History of Law, Philosophy and Sociology of Law and Computer Science and Law (CIRSFID), University of Bologna, Italy

III. Focus on ongoing projects’ standards definitions relevant peculiarities

Schema CHLeXML Mr Hubert Münst, Datafactory AG, Switzerland

Lex Dania Schema DevelopmentMr Ole Lianee, CSC Denmark, Denmark

III. Focus on ongoing projects’ standards definitions relevant peculiarities

Genericity and flexibility in the NIR schemaMr Fabio Vitali, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

Extension and internationalisation of Italian URNs schemeMr Pier Luigi Spinosa, Istituto di teoria e tecniche dell’informazione giuridica (ITTIG) – Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy

IV. Presentations of tools (editors, resolution systems, search, categorization, knowledge extraction)

Presentation of a case of consolidation with Norma-System using DTD v. 2Ms Monica Palmirani, Research Centre of History of Law, Philosophy and Sociology of Law and Computer Science and Law (CIRSFID), University of Bologna, Italy

NIREditor developments: support for planning a new billMr Enrico Francesconi, Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG), Italy

V. Law’s production processes / systems interoperability

Including XML in the central production system of RetsinformationMr Søren Broberg Nielsen, Civil Affairs, Legal Information Division, Denmark

Enabling service oriented architecture in Danish eGovernmentMr Rene Løhde , Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark

V. Law’s production processes / systems interoperability

Legal standards in the spatial domain and representation of normsMr Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The X-Leges System for Legislative Document ExchangeMr Massimo Mecella, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica – Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

PAPI – Business justification and technical highlightsMr Robert Kenny, Propylon, Ireland

VI. Metadata (concerning documents and semantics) and ontologies

Towards self explaining texts through analytical metadataMr Carlo Biagioli, Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell'Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG), Italy

Ontology for modelling the knowledge in the normsMs Raffaella Brighi Research Centre of History of Law, Philosophy and Sociology of Law and Computer Science and Law (CIRSFID), University of Bologna, Italy

VI. Metadata (concerning documents and semantics) and ontologies

Metadata in Lex Dania XML Mr Benny Høyer, Folketinget, Denmark

LOIS: a multilingual semantic lexiconMs Daniela Tiscornia, Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG), Italy

6 – 8 April 2005, Furore Inn, Furore (Costa d’Amalfi)

6 – 8 April 2005, Furore Inn, Furore (Costa d’Amalfi)


Alexander Boer (Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam)

Recent developments in MetaLex and Legislative XML in the Netherlands


Herald Reichel (Onlaw Internet-Technologie, Wien)

Freely Structured Segments in Rigidly Structured Documents


T. Agnoloni, C. Biagioli, E. Francesconi, P. Spinosa, M. Taddei (ITTIG, Firenze)

Towards a shared platform for legislative editors based on XML national standards


Friedrich Lachmayer (University of Innsbruck)

Visualisation of the Societal Context

of Legislation

4. Workshop on "Legislative XML“Thursday, 2005-11-17

Alexander Boer (NL), Fabio Vitali (I), Helmut Weichsel (A)

Presentation and discussion of the results of implementing the Palmirani documents


Carlo Biagioli, Maria Angela Biasiotti, Stefano Pietropaoli, (ITTIG, Firenze)

DAO: a model for explaining pragmatic and semantic features of

legislative texts fragments


Carlo Biagioli, Fabrizio Turchi (ITTIG, Firenze)

Meta - Search: searching for provisions and their relevant conceptual contents in

legislative XML data bases


Helmut Auer (Justizministerium, Wien)

XML and electronic accounting documents


Fabio Vitali (CIRSFID, Universita di Bologna)

Versioning model for managing consolidated normative system


Comparison beween Normeinrete and PAPIr

Fabio Vitali (CIRSFID, Universita di Bologna)


Wolfgang Engeljehringer (Parlamentsdirektion, Wien)

The Austrian parliament’s system

4. Workshop on "Legislative XML“Friday, 2005-11-18

Elisabeth Janeschitz(Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung, Klagenfurt)

Legislative workflow of local communities


Harald Hoffmann(METADAT, Wien)

Legislative business processes


Giovanni Sartor(Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche «Antonio Cicu»,

Universita di Bologna)

Project ONE-LEX


Günther Schefbeck (Parlamentsdirektion, Wien)

Beyond Legal-XML

"Klagenfurter Legistikgespräche 2006“

Workshop on Legislative Informatics

Wednesday, 2006-11-8 -

Friday, 2006-11-10

Lachmayer @ chello.atHarald.Hoffmann @ metadat.com