Proposed XML Standards for Law: MetaLex and LKIF

  • Authors:

  • Alexander Boer;Radboud Winkels;Fabio Vitali

  • Affiliations:

  • Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Electronic government invariably involves XML and electronic law: legislation is as essential to public administration as the ball is to a ball game. This paper gives an overview of two XML standard proposals dealing with two complementary aspects of electronic legislation --the documents themselves as a carrier, and an institutional reality they represent --in a coherent way: MetaLex XML and the Legal Knowledge Interchange format (LKIF). MetaLex XML is well on its way to becoming formal and de facto standard for legislation in XML. LKIF is yet to be submitted as a proposed standard. LKIF includes some interesting innovations from an AI & Law perspective.