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Legislative XML for the Semantic Web

Principles, Models, Standards for Document Management

  • First and only book on Legislative XML
  • Examines the rationale of standard-based management of legislative documents
  • Includes a discussion of semantic resources and a review of systems and projects
  • Provides an overview of the context for the use of XML standards in legislation

Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Legislative Information and the Web

    • Giovanni Sartor
    Pages 11-20
  3. ICT-Based Management of Legislative Documents

    • Giovanni Sartor
    Pages 21-34
  4. Naming Legislative Resources

    • Enrico Francesconi
    Pages 49-74
  5. Akoma-Ntoso for Legal Documents

    • Monica Palmirani, Fabio Vitali
    Pages 75-100
  6. Legislative Change Management with Akoma-Ntoso

    • Monica Palmirani
    Pages 101-130
  7. A MetaLex and Metadata Primer: Concepts, Use, and Implementation

    • Alexander Boer, Tom van Engers
    Pages 131-149
  8. Semantic Resources for Managing Legislative Information

    • Maria Angela Biasiotti
    Pages 151-172
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 189-190

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    Giovanni Sartor

  • Bologna, Italy

    Monica Palmirani

  • Information Theory and Techniques, IOTTIG-CNR, Institute of Legal, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Francesconi

  • ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy

    Maria Angela Biasiotti

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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