Links EU Project

Homepage of the European Legal RDF Dictionary

http://www.lexml.de/eu/

Participants in the project are:

ILRT, Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, UK
Copiur, Koordinationsstelle fuer die Publikation von Rechtsdaten of the Federal Chancery of Switzerland, Bern CH
EURICE, European Research and Project Office GmbH, Saarbruecken D
e-Envoy, the Office of the e-Envoy of the British Cabinet Office, London UK
MM, Anwaltskanzlei Murk Muller, Berlin D

The project has requested funding by the EU under IST Call 7 on 16th of October 2001. The evaluation by external experts has been closed now, in which this project was received favourably. The following parts are taken from the proposal document, requesting this funding. The texts made public may not be identical with the proposal document in all respects.

Part A

Proposal Abstract

Proposal Summary

Part B

Objectives

Contribution to programme/Key Action objectives

Innovation

Part C

Community added value and contribution to EC policies

Contribution to Community social objectives

Economic development and scientific and technological prospects

Dissemination

Past

Flyer presented at the EDV Gerichtstag, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2001, asking for XML Schemas and instance documents. Also an information meeting was held on 21 September 2001.
Workshop on XML and the RDF Dictionary in Bern, Switserland, at the Seminar on "Informatik & Recht" by Murk Muller on 18 september.
Workshop on datastructures and the RDF Dictionary in Bern, Switserland, by Murk Muller on 13 November 2001.

Future

Presentation of a paper on the RDF Dictionary at the Second International Workshop on Legal Ontologies during the Jurix 2001 conference "Legal Knowledge and Information Systems", Amsterdam 13 and 14 December 2001.

General info on the legal RDF Dictionary

Homepage of the open source project: http://www.lexml.de/rdf.htm

which includes the articles

for Legalxml/Horizontal Workgroup (English, January 2001)
Lord Chancellors Department/Metadata (English, January 2001)
XML and RDF/ RDFDictionary (German, April 2001)
the first article in German on the archetype idea for XML, but before having knowledge of RDF (German, May 2000)

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