Institute of Legal Infomation
Theory and Techniques

Italian National
Research Council
European University Institute
 
     
     
V Legislative XML Workshop
14-16 June 2006 - San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence - Italy)
 
Workshop Program
 

Wednesday, 14 June 2006
   
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
   
9:30 - 9:45

Welcome:
Prof. Wojciech Sadurski, Director of Law Department, European University Institute
Prof. Giovanni Sartor (EUI) - Dr. Carlo Biagioli (ITTIG) (Workshop Organization)
Prof. Carla Faralli - (CIRSFID)

   
Session 1 On-going Legislative XML Projects
  Chair: Harald Hoffmann
9:45 - 10:00 Switzerland - Hubert Muenst (Data Factory AG)
10:00 - 10:15 Austria - Harald Hoffmann (METADAT)
10:15 - 10:30 Italy - Caterina Lupo (CNIPA)
10:30 - 10:45 Denmark - Soren Nielsen, Nina Koch (Civil Affairs Agency)
10:45 - 11:00 Netherlands - Radboud Winkels (University of Amsterdam)
11:00 - 11:15 Discussion
   
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
   
  Chair: Caterina Lupo
11:45 - 12:00 Europen Union - Holger Bagola, Albrecht Berger (OPOCE - Office for the official publications of the European Union)
Formex - Two years after the introduction of XML
12:00 - 12:15 France - Daniele Bourcier (CNRS)
12:15 - 12:30 Germany - Gerrit Aufderheide (LEXML.de Organization)
12:30 - 12:45

Hungary - Balazs Ratai (Hungarian Parliament)

12:45 - 13:00 Ireland - Patricia Doran (Irish Parliament), Clyde Hatter (Propylon)
13:00 - 13:15 UK - Philip Leith (Queen's University - Belfast)
13:15 - 13:30 Discussion
   
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
   
Session 2

On-going Legislative XML Projects

  Chair: Nina Koch
14:30 - 14:45 Africa - Flavio Zeni (Chief Technical Adviser
Strengthening the Parliaments' Information Systems in Africa - UNDESA)
14:45 - 15:00

United Nations (UNDESA) - Daniela Giacomelli Global Centre for ICT in Parliament (Rome)

15:00 - 15:15 Brazil - Joao Alberto Lima (Senado Federal)
15:15 - 15:30 USA - John McClure (Legal RDF)
15:30 - 15:45 Spain - Martínez González, M. Mercedes and Vicente Blanco, Dámaso Javier (Universidad de Valladolid)
15:45 - 16:00 Final discussion on on-going legislative projects
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
   
  Different Markups of a Common Text: Discussion and Comparison
 

Chairs: Monica Palmirani, Pierluigi Spinosa

16:30 - 16:50

Hubert Muenst (Data Factory AG, Switzerland)
XML: doctrine and reality

16:50 - 17:30 Standard comparison. Contribuitions from:
- John McClure - Semantic model
- Holger Bagola - Formex markup of a Council decision
- Cirsfid - NIR
- ITTIG - NIR
- Soren Nielsen - LexDania
- Hubert Muenst - CHLexML
- Radboud Winkels - Metalex
   
Thursday, 15 June 2006
   
9:30 - 9:40 Welcome:
 

Prof. Yves Meny, President of European University Institute, Fiesole
Prof. Nicola Palazzolo, Director of Institute of Legal Information Theory and Technique (ITTIG-CNR, Florence)

   
Session 3

Special session on structural markup and consolidation

  Chair: Monica Palmirani
9:40 - 10:00 Fabio Vitali (University of Bologna)
Towards a country-independent data format: the Akoma Ntoso experience
10:00 - 10:20 Andrea Marchetti, Isabela Martins Garcia Leite, Maurizio Tesconi, Salvatore
Minutoli
(IIT-CNR, Pisa)
Using XML technologies for modeling and searching legislative acts. A case
study: managing brazilian acts
.
10:20 - 10:40 Gerrit Aufderheide (LEXML.de Organization)
LEXML Framework
10:40 - 11:00

Pierluigi Spinosa (ITTIG-CNR, Florence)
Internationalization of a legal URN scheme

   
11:00 - 11:40 Coffee Break
   
  Chair: Holger Bagola
11:40 - 12:00 Francesco Nocita, Maurizio Quattrociocchi (Office for the official publications)
The new procedure for the publication of normative acts
12:00 - 12:20 Monica Palmirani (CIRSFID, Bologna)
Point-in-time Normative Information System
12:20 - 12:40

Javier de Andres Rivero, Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta (University of Murcia)
Cronolex: One System for the Dinamic Respresentation of Laws

12:40 - 13:00 Holger Bagola (OPOCE - Office for the official publications of the European Union)
ConsLeg - The consolidation of the European legislation
13:00 - 13:20 Timothy Arnold-Moore (USA)
Automatic Consolidation
13:20 - 13:30 Discussion
   
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
   
Session 4

Special session on semantic markup of texts and rules, multilinguism and ontologies

  Chair: Philip Leith
14:30 - 14:50 Giada Altomare, Emiliana Bassolino, Francesco Carella, Tiziana Federici, Francesco Fratini, Valentina Monnis, Enrico Seta (Italian Parliament - Chamber of Deputies)
Provisions modifying provisions, and provisions calling for subsequent regulatory acts
14:50 - 15:10 Friedrich Lachmayer - Harald Hoffmann (METADAT- Austria)
Legal and Documentalistic Subelements: Remarks on Biagioli's Concept of Legal Provisions
15:10 - 15:30 John McClure (Legal RDF, USA)
Annotation of Legal Documents in XHTML (handout)
(EC Official Journal Model) (Models Comparison Analysis)
Markup examples:
  1. 2000_185_EC (html) (xhtml)
  2. 2002_954_EC (html) (xhtml)
  3. 2004_161_EC (html) (xhtml)
  4. EU.20040210.rdf
15:30 - 15:50 Radboud Winkels (University of Amsterdam)
Estrella: Standardization for Legal Knowledge Systems
15:50 - 16:00 Discussion
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
   
  Chair: Daniela Tiscornia
16:30 - 16:50 Claudia Destefanis (Office of translation of the European Union)
Legislative Drafting and the EU
16:50 - 17:10 Lauren Mommers (Leiden Univ.), Wim Peters (Univ. of Sheffield), Daniela Tiscornia (ITTIG-CNR)
The Lois Project: Lexical Ontologies for Legal Information Sharing
17:10 - 17:30 G. Ajani, L. Lesmo, G. Boella, A. Mazzei, P. Rossi (University of Turin)
Multilingual Conceptual Dictionaries Based on Ontologies
17:30 - 17:50 L. Gilardoni, C. Biasuzzi, M. Ferraro, R. Fonti, P. Slavazza (Quinary),
F. Toffoletto, V. F. Giglio
LKMS/Mnemosyne: Semantic Web technologies and Markup techniques for a Legal Knowledge Management System
17:50 - 18:00 Rossella Rubino (CIRSFID, Bologna)
An OWL ontology of basic legal concepts
   
20:30 Social Dinner
   
Friday, 16 June 2006
   
Session 5 Special session on legislative software and applications
  Chair: Enrico Francesconi
9:20 - 9:40

Federica Benigni (CIRSFID, Bologna)
NormaEditor and NormaSystem

9:40 - 10:00 Regis Riveret (CIRSFID, Bologna)
Consolidation servers and Multi Agent System Cooperation
10:00 - 10:20 Matija Lah, Anton Tomazic (IUS-Software, Slovenia)
Application of the Newly Developed Standards to the Existing Legislation (Ai-in-Law project)
10:20 - 10:40 Josef Makolm (Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance)
Bridging Organisational Borders: The XML Strategy of the Austrian Ministry of Finance
10:40 - 11:00 Claudia Soria, Simonetta Montemagni, Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR)
SALEM - A provision argument extractor
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
   
  Chair: Radboud Winkels
11:30 - 11:50 Clyde Hatter (Propylon, Ireland)
Standard models for legislation, the cost of compliance
11:50 - 12:10 Tommaso Agnoloni, Enrico Francesconi, Pierluigi Spinosa (ITTIG-CNR, Florence)
xmLegesEditor: an open-source Visual XML Editor for supporting Legal National Standards
12:30 - 12:50 Balaz Ratai (Hungarian Parliament)
Legal Knowledge Representation and Management Technologies and their Use in a Parliamentary Law Making Procedure
12:50 - 13:10

Soren Nielsen (Civil Affairs Agency - Denmark, European Forum of Official Gazettes) XML: Common use of XML for the production and distribution of official gazettes

13:10 - 13:30 Carlo Biagioli, Lorenzo Bacci, Enrico Francesconi, Fabrizio Turchi (ITTIG-CNR, Florence), Amedeo Cappelli (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
Law-Making Environment: Perspectives
   
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
   
Session 6 The European perspective
  Chairs: Pascale Berteloot, Giovanni Sartor
14:30 - 14:50 Present and future of Legislative XML: State of the Art and Perspectives
14:50 - 16:00 Roundtable