Legal XML
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Legal XML is a non-profit organization developing open standards for legal documents and related applications. The building block for Legal XML standards is eXtensible Markup Language ("XML").
LegalXML is a member section within OASIS, the not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the LegalXML agenda, using the open OASIS technical process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. LegalXML produces standards for electronic court filing, court documents, legal citations, transcripts, criminal justice intelligence systems, and others.
OASIS members participating in LegalXML include lawyers, developers, application vendors, government agencies and members of academia.
Current LegalXML Technical Committees (TCs)
- OASIS LegalDocumentML TC: Models, represents, and manages legal documents as authorial, authentic, valid and persistent digital resources. The work will be based upon the Akoma Ntoso project (from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) XML schema.[1] The Library of Congress created the "Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso Challenge" to create representations of selected US bills using the most recent Akoma Ntoso standard.[2]
- OASIS LegalRuleML TC: Enabling legal arguments to be created, evaluated, and compared using rule representation tools.
- OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC: Using XML to create and transmit legal documents among attorneys, courts, litigants, and others.
- OASIS LegalXML eNotarization TC: Developing technical requirements to govern self-proving electronic legal information.
References
- ^ Gheen, Tina (23 April 2012). "OASIS Puts Akoma Ntoso on the Standards Track". Library of Congress.
- ^ Gheen, Tina (16 July 2013). "Library of Congress Announces First Legislative Data Challenge". Library of Congress.