Freitas et al. on A New Usage for Semantic Technologies on eGovernment: Checking Official Documents’ Consistency

Dr. Fred Freitas of Universität Mannheim Zentrum für Wirtschaftsinformatik Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management Research Group and Federal Universidade of Pernambuco Informatics Center, Zacharias Candeias Jr. of the Pernambuco Agência Estadual de Tecnologia da Informação, and Professor Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt of Universität Mannheim Zentrum für Wirtschaftsinformatik Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management Research Group, will presentRead… Read more »

Visualizing Legislation: Software Tools

A number of software applications and platforms are now available for creating visualizations (i.e., graphical depictions) of legislation. Here are some of them: Compendium — an argument mapping application, distributed free-of-charge — has been applied to legislation (see pages 129-132) by participants in the EU’s LEX-IS Project. (See the description in Loukis et al., UsingRead… Read more »

Palmirani on Legal Resources Modelling in the Semantic Web for Implementing eGov

Professor Monica Palmirani of Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche «Antonio Cicu» and Centro Interdipartimentale de Ricerca in Storia del Diritto e Informatica Giuridica (CIRSFID) presented a lecture entitled Legal Resources Modelling in the Semantic Web for Implementing eGov on 11 November 2009 at CodeX: The Stanford University Center for Computers and Law, inRead… Read more »

Boer & van Engers on The Agile Project: Reconciling Agility and Legal Accountability

Dr. Alexander Boer and Professor Dr. Tom van Engers, both of the Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam, have published The Agile Project: Reconciling Agility and Legal Accountability, in ICT4JUSTICE 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICT Solutions for Justice, Skopje, FYR Macedonia, September 24, 2009 41-49 (George Eleftherakis andRead… Read more »

Boer, van Engers, & Winkels on the Traceability of the Implementation of Legal Rules in Public Administration

Dr. Alexander Boer, Professor Dr. Tom van Engers, and Professor Dr. Radboud Winkels, all of the Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam, presented a paper entitled Traceability of the Implementation of Legal Rules in Public Administration, at LIT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, held 3 MayRead… Read more »

New Tool for Visualizing Congressional Bills: IBM Many Bills / DocBlocks

Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, and Matt McKeon, all of the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab, presented DocBlocks: Communication-Minded Visualization of Topics in U.S. Congressional Bills, at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Here is the abstract: US Federal legislation is aRead… Read more »

Lippell & Jordan on The Metadata Model for Directgov

Helen Lippell and Peter Jordan, both of the U.K. Government’s Directgov online portal, have published The Metadata Model for Directgov, 10 Legal Information Management 7-9 (no. 1) (2010). Directgov provides access to a great deal of legal information. Here is the abstract: Peter Jordan and Helen Lippell describe the role of metadata, including taxonomies, inRead… Read more »

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 anRead… Read more »

Introduction to Legal Ontologies & the Legal Semantic Web, by Núria Casellas

Professor Núria Casellas of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Ciència Política i Dret Públic and Institute of Law and Technology (IDT) has published Semantic Enhancement of Legal Information… Are We Up for the Challenge?, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, a publication of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. Dr. Casellas’s postRead… Read more »

WebLaws.org: What’s Next for This New Resource from Robb Shecter?

WebLaws.org is a new, free legal information resource — with added functions available for a fee — providing access to the statutes of multiple U.S. states, and created by Robb Shecter. Robb is well known as the developer of OregonLaws.org, the free access to law site for Oregon statutes, legal news, and Web services thatRead… Read more »

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