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URN:LEX Legal Identifier Standard: New Version 03 Available

Rob Richards April 9, 2011

A new version 03 of the URN:LEX standard for legal identifiers has been posted. The new version is dated 1 April 2011, and expires 3 October 2011.

The new version has been published by Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG/CNR); Italy, National Centre for ICT in Public Administration (CNIPA) [now DigitPA]; Brazil, Federal Senate, IT Department (PRODASEN); and Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (LII).

The contacts for the draft are Professor Dr. Enrico Francesconi & Pierluigi Spinosa, both of ITTIG/CNR, and Caterina Lupo of CNIPA/DigitPA.

According to the new version:

The purpose of the “lex” namespace is to assign an unequivocal identifier, in standard format, to documents that are sources of law. To the extent of this namespace, “sources of law” include any legal document within the domain of legislation (including bills), case law and administrative acts or regulations; therefore “legal doctrine” is explicitly not covered.

The authors have also developed a URN schema handler which can be used in conjunction with URN:LEX.

Tags: Enrico Francesconi, Legal descriptive metadata, Legal identifiers, Legal metadata, Pierluigi Spinosa, Tom Bruce, URN schema handler, URN:LEX

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