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NOTE: The resources listed on this page concern metadata specifically designed for legal information. For general metadata resources having application to legal information, see the METADATA: GENERAL section of this Website. In addition, most of the resources listed on this page deal with descriptive or structural metadata. For resources on knowledge representation (controlled vocabularies, authority files, thesauri, ontologies, etc.) see the KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION section of this Website.
TITLE: Report on “The Future Is Digital: Metadata Standards and Applications Workshop,” an AALL TS-SIS Preconference Workshop at the 2007 AALL Annual Meeting.
CREATOR: Sean Chen
RELATION:ISPARTOF: Tech. Servs. Law Librarian, Sept. 2007, at 51.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/33-01/33-01.pdf
TITLE: AALL TS-SIS Cataloging Committee Links to Cataloging Resources.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/techlinks/cataloging.htm
TITLE: ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol).
IDENTIFIER: http://www.the-acap.org/
TITLE: AKOMA NTOSO (Architecture for Knowledge-Oriented Management of African Normative Texts Using Open Standards and Ontologies).
IDENTIFIER: http://www.akomantoso.org/
PUBLISHER: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
TITLE: Cataloging Legal Literature: A Manual on AACR2R and Library of Congress Subject Headings for Legal Materials.
CREATOR: Melody Busse Lembke & Rhonda K. Lawrence
DESCRIPTION: 3rd ed.
PUBLISHER: W.S. Hein & Co.
DATE: 1997
IDENTIFIER: http://www.wshein.com/Catalog/Product.aspx?sku=717 (description only); some supplements available at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/techlinks/cataloging.htm
TITLE: ccREL: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language.
IDENTIFIER: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcREL;
PUBLISHER: Creative Commons.
DESCRIPTION: ccREL is "a specification describing how license information may be described using RDF and how license information may be attached to works."
TITLE: Citation Standards.
RELATION: See the CITATION STANDARDS section of this Website
TITLE: Court Document XML Specifications.
IDENTIFIER: Court Document 1.1: http://www.ncsconline.org/D_Tech/standards/Documents/CourtDocument11-rev1/CourtDocument11/CourtDocument_11(rev1).html;
Court Document 2.0: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/9114/schall~1.xsd;
Court Filing Documents Subcommittee presentation, describing plan to revise Court Document 1.1;
Other Court Filing Documents Subcommittee documents, http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=courtfiling-doc
PUBLISHER: LegalXML
DESCRIPTION: This is an XML DTD for all types of court documents, including pleadings, motions, briefs, opinions, and orders.
TITLE: The Crown XML Schema for Legislation.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/schema/
PUBLISHER: United Kingdom. National Archives. Office of Public Sector Information.
TITLE: ECF 4.0 Specification: Electronic Court Filing 4.0 Specification.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=legalxml-courtfiling (scroll down)
PUBLISHER: LegalXML
TITLE: EDRM: Electronic Discovery Reference Model.
IDENTIFIER: XML: http://edrm.net/xml_distrib/;
Main Site: http://www.edrm.net/.
PUBLISHER: EDRM.
DESCRIPTION: This is a set of standards, including an XML schema, for electronic discovery.
SUBJECT: Electronic discovery (Law); Discovery (Law)
TITLE: GJXDM (Global Justice Extensible Markup Language).
IDENTIFIER: http://www.it.ojp.gov/jxdm/
PUBLISHER: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
DESCRIPTION: This is a markup language for justice and public safety documents. The LegalXML court standards seek to be compatible with GJXDM.
TITLE: Global Justice Reference Architecture (JRA).
IDENTIFIER: http://it.ojp.gov/default.aspx?area=nationalInitiatives&page=1015
PUBLISHER: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
DESCRIPTION: This is a not a metadata schema, but an information exchange model for justice and public safety agencies.
TITLE: IEPD: Information Exchange Package Documentation.
IDENTIFIER: NCSC IEPD Page:http://www.ncsconline.org/D_Tech/gjxdm/IEPD.asp.
PUBLISHER: National Center for State Courts.
IDENTIFIER: NIEM IEPD Clearinghouse (database of XML instances conforming to NIEM): http://www.it.ojp.gov/framesets/iepd-clearinghouse-noClose.htm
PUBLISHER: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
DESCRIPTION: These are standards for a number of court or justice document or information types, including protection orders, arrest warrants, bond documents, and court performance data.
TITLE: JIEM: Justice Information Exchange Model.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.search.org/programs/info/jiem/
INSTITUTIONS: SEARCH and U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance
DESCRIPTION: This is not a metadata schema, but a model of
an information exchange system for justice, public safety, and
homeland security agencies.
TITLE: JRA: Global Justice Reference Architecture.
RELATION: SEE Global Justice Reference Architecture (JRA) above
TITLE: JurMeta.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.jurawiki.de/JurMeta.
PUBLISHER: Universität des Saarlandes Institut für Rechtsinformatik, JIPS: Juristisches Internetprojekt Saarbrücken.
DESCRIPTION: This is a project to develop descriptive metadata standards and a legal ontology for legal documents available on the open Internet.
TITLE: Legal XML.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.legalxml.org/
DESCRIPTION: Creates standards to enable the exchange of digital legal documents.
TITLE: Legislative XML Summer School.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.one-lex.eu/Activities/summerschool/legislativexml.html
PUBLISHER: European University Institute Department of Law
TITLE: LexCraft.
IDENTIFIER: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wiki/lexcraft
PUBLISHER: Cornell University School of Law Legal Information Institute (LII)
DESCRIPTION: A collection of “best practices for electronic legal information publication,” including a lot of information on metadata standards and practices.
TITLE: LEXML.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.lexml.it/mission_english.html
DESCRIPTION: This is a forum for exchanging information about the use of XML in connection with law, particularly in Europe.
TITLE: LISA: Legal Information Standards Action Network.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.lisan.org/li/links/links.htm
DESCRIPTION: Promotes information sharing respecting application of standards to legal information
TITLE: MetaLex: Open XML Interchange Format for Legal and Legislative Resources.
IDENTIFIER: http://legacy.metalex.eu/
TITLE: MIEM: Maritime Information Exchange Model.
IDENTIFIER: Description by Dr. Rick Hayes-Roth and Dr. David Reading.
CREATOR: U.S. Comprehensive Maritime Awareness Joint Concept Technology Demonstration (CMA JCTD); U.S. Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing Community of Interest Data Management Working Group (MDA DS COI DMWG).
DESCRIPTION: This is a set of XML DTDs for maritime events and documents, including Advance Notices of Arrival, required by 33 CFR sec. 401.79; for ship manifests, which have legal functions in certain contexts; and for other law-related documents.
TITLE: MPEG-21 REL: Rights Expression Language.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=36095;
ISO/IEC 21000-5:2004.
RELATION: Description of MPEG-21 REL by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG): http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/working_documents.htm#MPEG-21.
PUBLISHER: ISO: International Organization for Standardization.
TITLE: NIEM: National Information Exchange Model.
IDENTIFIER: Main Website: http://www.niem.gov;
IEPD Clearinghouse (database of XML instances conforming to NIEM): http://www.it.ojp.gov/framesets/iepd-clearinghouse-noClose.htm;
NCSC IEPD Page:http://www.ncsconline.org/D_Tech/gjxdm/IEPD.asp.
INSTITUTIONS: U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Homeland Security; National Center for State Courts.
DESCRIPTION: This is a set of metadata standards for courts, justice administration, and homeland security. The LegalXML standards seek to comply with the NIEM standards.
TITLE: Norme in Rete XML DTD.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.nir.it/sito_area3-ap_stan_rappresentazione_xml.htm
PUBLISHER: Italy. Centro Nazionale per l’Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione (CNIPA); Ministero della Guistizia
TITLE: OAI4Courts.
IDENTIFIER: http://oai4courts.wikispaces.com/
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute
DESCRIPTION: Promotes the development of digital legal libraries having interoperable metadata conforming to OAI-PMH.
TITLE: ODRL: Open Digital Rights Language.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.odrl.net/
PUBLISHER: Open Digital Rights Language Initiative
TITLE: Regulations XML Repository.
IDENTIFIER: http://eil.stanford.edu/regnet/ (click on “XML Repository”)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University, School of Engineering,
Engineering Informatics Group
TITLE: RuleML: The Rule Markup Initiative.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.ruleml.org/
TITLE: Saarbrücker Standard 2000: XML-Standard für gerichtliche Entscheidungen.
IDENTIFIER: https://www.edvgt.de/pages/beschluesse-und-veroeffentlichungen-des-edv-gt/saarbruecker-standard-2000.php
PUBLISHER: Deutsche EDV-Gerichtstag e.V.
DESCRIPTION: This is an XML DTD for court decisions.
TITLE: SALEM: Semantic Annotation for Legal Management.
IDENTIFIER: Description by Claudia Soria et al.: http://www.e-p-a-p.com/dlib/9788883980466/art18.pdf
SPONSOR: Norme in Rete; Italy. Centro Nazionale per l’Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione (CNIPA)
TITLE: XMLaw Specification.
IDENTIFIER: Version 1.0, 2007: http://www2.dbd.puc-rio.br/pergamum/tesesabertas/0510953_07_cap_02.pdf.
DESCRIPTION: Included in chapter 2 of Rodrigo de Barros Paes, Governança de Sistemas Multi-Agentes Abertos com Fidedignidade = Governance of Open Multi-Agent Systems with Dependability (2007), Thesis (Ph.D.), Pontifical Catholical University of Rio de Janeiro, http://www2.dbd.puc-rio.br/pergamum/tesesabertas/0510953_07_pretextual.pdf.
SUBJECT: Information storage and retrieval systems Law; XML Document markup language.
TAGS: Legal XML; Legal metadata; Legal structural metadata.
CATEGORIES: Dissertations and theses; Metadata.
TITLE: xmLeges-Editor.
IDENTIFIER: Download: http://www.ittig.cnr.it/xmleges/ ; Presentation by Tommaso Agnoloni, Enrico Francesconi, & Pierluigi Spinosa: http://www.ittig.cnr.it/legws/Presentations/AgnoloniFrancesconiSpinosa.pdf
PUBLISHER: Italy. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche,
Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR)
TITLE: XrML: Extensible Rights Markup Language.
IDENTIFIER: http://www.xrml.org/.
PUBLISHER: ContentGuard.
DESCRIPTION: "XrML provides a universal method for securely specifying and managing rights and conditions associated with all kinds of resources including digital content as well as services."
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