This volume examines the basic layers of the standard-based creation and usage of legislation. In particular, it addresses the identification of legislative documents, their structure, the basic metadata and legislative changes. Since mature technologies and established practices are already in place for these layers, a standard-based approach is a necessary aspect of the up-to-date management of legislative resources.
Starting out with an overview of the context for the use of XML standards in legislation, the book next examines the rationale of standard-based management of legislative documents. It goes on to address such issues as naming, the Akoma-Ntoso document model, the contribution of standard-based document management to handling legislative dynamics, meta-standards and interchange standards. The volume concludes with a discussion of semantic resources and a review on systems and projects.
Author(s): Giovanni Sartor (auth.), Giovanni Sartor, Monica Palmirani, Enrico Francesconi, Maria Angela Biasiotti (eds.)
Series: Law, Governance and Technology Series 4
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 190
Tags: Media Law; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Legal Aspects of Computing
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: ICT and Legislation in the Knowledge Society....Pages 1-10
Legislative Information and the Web....Pages 11-20
ICT-Based Management of Legislative Documents....Pages 21-34
A Standard-Based Approach for the Management of Legislative Documents....Pages 35-47
Naming Legislative Resources....Pages 49-74
Akoma-Ntoso for Legal Documents....Pages 75-100
Legislative Change Management with Akoma-Ntoso....Pages 101-130
A MetaLex and Metadata Primer: Concepts, Use, and Implementation....Pages 131-149
Semantic Resources for Managing Legislative Information....Pages 151-172
A Review of Systems and Projects: Management of Legislative Resources....Pages 173-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-190
