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Akoma Ntoso Update: Legislative Drafting at the United Kingdom & Scottish Parliaments Grant Vergottini, CEO Xcential September 15, 2016

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Akoma Ntoso Update:Legislative Drafting at the United Kingdom & Scottish Parliaments

Grant Vergottini, CEO Xcential

September 15, 2016

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What is Akoma Ntoso?

“Akoma Ntoso”

LegalDocML

a-coma-in-tozo

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What is Akoma Ntoso?

United NationsDepartment of Economic & Social Affairs

University of Bologna

United StatesLibrary of Congress

European Parliament

European Commission

ChileLibrary of Congress

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Akoma Ntoso Standardization

• Essentially done

• Public comment stage• Object raised by European Parliament and European

Legislative Identifier (ELI) workgroup

• Solution has been a compromise – support for multiple URI schemes

• One last round of comments

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LEX Summer School 2016+ Akoma Ntoso Developer Workshop

• University of Bologna• Ravenna, Italy campus

• September 5-13, 2016

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Theory

Non-AKN Legacy Tools

Prototype Tagging Editors Full Drafting Editors

Linking & Resolving

Amending

Search

Visualization

Growing value statement

Workflow

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UK Legislative Drafting Project

Legislative Drafting, Amending & Publishing Programme

LDAPP

Developing a browser-based

drafting, amending, and publishing

tools for primary and secondary

legislation

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Scotland and the United Kingdom

• United Kingdom• Scotland• England• Wales• Northern Ireland

UK Parliament• House of Lords• House of Commons

Scottish Parliament

“Asymmetrical Devolution”

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Ping Pong

Royal Assent

Royal Assent

The Partners

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U.K. Guiding Principles

Browser-based but application-like experience

User focused: objects that the user understands

A shared system for all

Uses open standards

Inspired by Government Service Design Manual

Follows Agile development methodology

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Suppliers

• Xcential Legislative Technologies• Architecture• Editing Component• Akoma Ntoso implementation

• Azeus (U.K.)• Bespoke workflow implementation• Application integration• Agile scrum master

• The Stationery Office (TSO)• Project administration• Database & Security support

Project management by the (customer) partners

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Technologies

DOM4

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Worldwide Project

The sun never sets on this British project

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Managing a Worldwide Agile Project

Document

KahootzSecure document storage. Board papers, financial reports and forecasts etc. (G-cloud procured service)

Communicate

SlackBetween project team, developers, and product owners (users)

Email and phone

Still not dead yet

Collaborate

Google DocsTest documentation, instruction manuals

Google Slides

Presentations

Google sheets

Trackers

Manage

JiraIssue tracking and agile project management tool

Microsoft Project

Still not dead yet

Develop

Github Code repository

AWSAmazon Web Services - cloud hosting for test environment

VsceneMulti-platform video-conferencing and desktop sharing (provided by suppliers)

IntercallTeleconferencing and desktop sharing (Scot Gov contract)

Doodle Scheduling meetings and user sessions

Face to face In any partner location in UK

Meet up

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Project Timeline

Scottish Bill Word Macros

Statutory Instrument

template

UK Bill Frame Maker system

PrototypesPrototy

pesPrototypes

WireframesWireframes

RequirementsRequirements

RequirementsRequirements

Discovery and Alpha Beta Live transition

Beta development

Continuous development

Integration

Gradual rollout

Current

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Balancing the Tensions

What can be built?

What does the standard say?

What does the customer need?

Sweet Spot

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Borrowing Experience

California Legislative Counsel• “Redlining” (track changes)• Page & line number

back-annotation• Inline amending

(amendments in context)• PDF publishing

U.S. House of Representatives• Editor core

• Resolver architecture

• Hierarchy management

Hong Kong Dept. of Justice• UK legislative traditions

• Schema modeling

And of course, Akoma Ntoso experience

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Integrated Editing Environment

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Akoma Ntoso is very flexible

Full Akoma Ntoso Tag set

Akoma Ntoso does not have to perfectly match local jurisdiction document traditions

Customer Need

Perfect Match

MissingUse generic named elements to fill in the gaps or refine the semantics

U.K. & Scottish Requirements

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Document Types Implemented

Bill

AKN

Act

AKN

Amend. List

AKN

Amendment

AKN

• UK Bills• Scottish Bills

• UK Statutes• Scottish Statutes• UK Statutory Instruments (SI)

• Rules, Orders, Regulations, Warrants, Insistances, non-Insistances, byelaws, etc.

• Scottish Statutory Instruments• Church Measures (Future)

• Draft Amendments• Daily Lists• Marshalled Lists

• Amendments

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Basic Drafting

• Word processor editing experience

• Extensive use of keyboard • Keyboard

navigation

• Promote / Demote

• Introduction of redlining

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Traditional Amending

• Manual Drafting• Drag & Drop• Automated Parsing

of language

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Inline Amending

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Publishing

• High quality PDF output• Page & line number

annotation

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In Summary

• Early adoption of Akoma Ntoso

• Ambitious scope• Nation wide drafting tool for both primary and secondary legislation• Innovative drafting and amending approaches• Aggressive timeline

• First Beta Version complete• User evaluation stage• Development hiatus• Refining the edges

• Next phase – Complete development

• Phased deployment – starting with Scotland

LDAPP