standard for Parliaments The use case of Parliament of Uruguay Sylvia Tosar General Director, Member of CTIP Parliament of Uruguay, Uruguay Monica Palmirani Professor of Legal Informatics Law School, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy Fabio Vitali Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna, Italy
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standard for ParliamentsThe use case of Parliament of Uruguay
Sylvia TosarGeneral Director, Member of CTIPParliament of Uruguay, UruguayMonica PalmiraniProfessor of Legal InformaticsLaw School, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, ItalyFabio VitaliProfessor of Computer ScienceDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Bologna, Italy
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Akoma Ntoso (AKN) in OASISn An open XML standard for all the legal documents
used in Parliamentary processes and judgmentsn Started in 2005 in the project “Strengthening
Parliaments’ Information Systems in Africa”, promoted by the UNITED NATIONS Department for Economics and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
n Akoma Ntoso means “Linked Hearts” and it is a symbol used by the Akan people of West Africa to represent understanding and agreement
• Document Drafting• Simulation• Consolidation of documents• Consolidation of amendments• Ordering of amendments• Debates record• Printing in the official Internal Journal
Success stories of AKNn Senate of Brazil (AKN in Portuguese, acts, bills, point-in-time)n European Parliament (bill and amendments)n Library of Congress of Chile (bill and debates)n Senate of Italy (bill publication in open data)n Parliament of Uruguay (bill workflow)n US Code Consolidation service (code management)n State of California (xml standard for document management)n
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AKN: Transparency, Quality, & EfficiencyXML by itself is not a guarantee for transparency. Yet, AKN has explicit features that support it:
q Clear division of metadata from official contentq Explicit lifecycle of the document and tracking of workflow eventsq Systematic connection of separate pieces of information to extract new legal knowledgeq Long-term preservation of legal validity (authentic document)q Management of multiple linguistic expressions q Data model for open government data and Linked Open Data (LOD)q Preservation of privacy/liability issues (e.g. in judiciary document)
AKN support for parliamentary activitiesn Support for generation of new documents: drafting activities, record keeping, translation into national languages, etc. n Support for workflow and lifecycle of documents: management of documents across lifecycle, storage, security, timely involvement of relevant individuals and officesn Support for citizens’ access to the legal global
information: multi-channel (on paper and on the web) publication, search, classification, identificationn Further activities: consolidation, comparison, language synchronization, etc.
AKN Open Source Tools
n Editors: Lime, Bungeni, AT4AMn URI/IRI Resolversn Textual Parsern XML Validatorn Convertersn Presentationn Sub-schema extractorn Parliament SW Platform
Parliament of Uruguay AKN projectn 2013-ongoingn Goals
q Use of AKN for the legislative process of billsq Comparative visualization of two versionsq LIME Web Editor used for the mark-up of the bills
n Methodology q Group of technical and legal expertsq 4 pilot casesq Support from the University of Bologna
n Future stepsq Deploy the system in-place for managing bill legislative processq Extend the project to debates connected with the billsq AKN resolverq Ontology for legislative process
Portal for the citizens
Navigation of the structure
Comparative visualization
OASIS: international standardization bodyn Not-for-profit consortium founded in 1993n Open to all: companies, government agencies, academic
and research institutions, individualsn International community
q 5,000+ participants including 600+ organizations in 100+ countries; 33% in Europe; 13% in Asia
n Technical agenda set by membersn Board and Committee chairs elected by membersn About 65 Technical Committees active in many domains
LegalDocML TC membersn 36 members in the TC
Chile Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional – European Parliament – Ghana Parliament – Georgia State University College of Law Library - University of ‐Bologna CIRSFID – Uruguay Parliament – LexisNexis,
a Division of Reed Elsevier – Wells Fargo – Library of Congress – M.I.T. – Aubay S.A. – Xcential – JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. - National Center for State Courts –
Statements of Use Three use casesCandidate standard
Public Review Open for 60 daysBalloting 15% of the OASIS
OASIS TC Workflow
Conclusionsn AKN is a robust legal XML standard for legal open document in parliamentn It is fit for open government data and semantic web (LOD)n It is extendable and customizable n Each organization can select just the needed partsn Open source tools are now availablen Several pilot cases and end-user projects are substantial proofs-of-concept for many legal systems and scenariosn Several Parliaments use AKN in-place implementations n OASIS standard process makes AKN an international standard stable with a good governance