Registration Open for: LEX 2010 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web

Registration is now open for the LEX 2010 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web (formerly the Legislative XML Summer School), to be held 6-11 September 2010, at the University of Bologna’s campus in Ravenna, Italy.

The summer school lasts 6 days and “is organized in two courses:”

• “A Basic Course providing an introduction to XML web technologies and to basic technologies for drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative and legal documents;
• “An Advanced Course providing in-depth analysis of the higher levels of Semantic Web technologies and of their application to the legal domain: modelling of modifications, procedures and legal knowledge.”

Click here for the brochure.

The event’s sponsors include:

• Università di Bologna;
• The Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam;
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR);
• The European University Institute;
• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institute of Law and Technology.

The site also lists articles and publications that will be discussed during the course, including:

• M. Biasiotti, E. Francesconi, M. Palmirani, G. Sartor, F. Vitali: Legal Informatics and Management of Legislative Documents;
• Enrico Francesconi: RDF and Semantic Mark-up of Legislative Texts (Bibliography);
• Monica Palmirani: Practical Legal Drafting. Guidelines for Africa;
• Daniela Tiscornia: The Structuring of Legal Knowledge in LOIS.

Further, the site links to valuable resources on:

• the Semantic Web;
• Legal XML;
• standards and projects respecting Legal XML and the legal Semantic Web.

For more information, please see the event Website.

HT Professor Monica Palmirani.