de Oliveira Lima, An Adaptation of the FRBR Model to Legal Norms
João Alberto de Oliveira Lima sent me an e-mail telling me about a paper he wrote, “An Adaptation of the FRBR Model to Legal Norms,” which is available in Proceedings of the V Legislative XML Workshop (but not available on the web). He adds:
The FRBR model offers an excellent framework to deal with legal texts. In legal domain, we’ve a lot of derivations due to the constant amendments of normative acts. The application of the FRBR to legal norms is beyond the generic tasks (find, identify, select and obtain) of a catalog. It will be applied as a backbone to structure legal information systems.
The paper’s idea was well accepted in the workshop and now is a reality in the draft of the CEN METALEX standard and is influencing other projects like the Italian Norme in Rete, the Akoma Ntoso Project and the Brazilian LexML Project.
(Everyone is welcome to send me notices of publications, conference sessions, implementations, etc., and I’ll mention them here.)