Sean McGrath of Proplyon — and a member of our community — has posted Towards a Bill Status Data Model, in The NIEM EDemocracy Initiative (NEI) Google Group. In this post, Mr. McGrath sets out “5 possible approaches to a 50-state bill status data model” for U.S. states. The post also contains descriptions of typicalRead… Read more »
Legislative XML for the Semantic Web: Principles, Models, Standards for Document Management (Springer 2011), a collection of scholarly articles on the use of XML and Semantic Web technologies in connection with legislative information systems, has been published. The volume is edited by Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor of Università di Bologna CIRSFID; Professor Dr. Monica PalmiraniRead… Read more »
Sean McGrath of Proplyon — and a member of our community — has launched a new legal technology project: The NIEM EDemocracy Initiative (NEI). The goal of NEI appears to be to develop “technological standards based on the” U.S. National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), as applied particularly to law-related e-government functions. Mr. McGrath’s post entitledRead… Read more »
Michael J. Bommarito II of Systematic Global Macro and Computational Legal Studies has posted an XML version of Michigan Compiled Laws — the official codification of Michigan legislation — for bulk download. According to his post, Mr. Bommarito also “improved the underlying data [of the code] by adding tags and correcting indentation as best asRead… Read more »
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 5 September 2011 — has been issued for JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 14-16 December 2011 at the University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria. Papers are invited on the following topics: Support for lawyers, in legalRead… Read more »
Tom Bruce, co-founder and director of the Legal Information Institute — and a member of our community — testified on 16 June 2011 before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives. In his testimony, Tom called for the House to adopt an XML-based, point-in-time approach toRead… Read more »
Professor Dr. Radboud Winkels of the Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam has published What’s in an Interchange Standard for Legislative XML?, Jusletter IT, 22, Feb. 2011. Here is the abstract: To make efficient and effective use of all sources of law electronically available in Europe, with all their different (XML) formats,Read… Read more »
Registration is now open for the LEX 2011 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web (formerly the Legislative XML Summer School), to be held 5-10 September 2011, 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 »
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 31 March 2011 — has been issued for AHLTL 2011: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law, a workshop to be held 10 June 2011, at ICAIL 2011: The Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. [If the call for papersRead… Read more »
Dr. João Alberto de Oliveira Lima of the Federal Senate of Brazil has posted The LexML Brazil Project, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Dr. Lima describes the LexML Brazil free access to law project, and the technology underlying its LexML Brazil PortalRead… Read more »