Providing persistent, versioned identifiers of all elements of regulations.
Maintaining source XML for all versions of legislation since May 2011, rather than only the latest version.
All metadata is published as RDF Linked Data, is linked to the original legislative sources, and uses standard vocabularies such as the MetaLex Ontology, Dublin Core, Open Provenance Model Vocabulary, Simple Event Model,FOAF, etc.
All documents and metadata are available through ‘content negotiation’: content can be retrieved by using the URI (identifier) of an element as a URL.
For more information, have a look at the presentation on slideshare, or contact Rinke Hoekstra directly.
A report on this work will be published as part of the proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2011: “Rinke Hoekstra. The MetaLex Document Server – Legal Documents as Versioned Linked Data”
DEADLINE EXTENSION
Following many requests for an extension of the AICOL deadline, the Program committee has decided that 15th June 2011, will be the latest date on which full papers can be submitted: Note that this deadline cannot be further extended, since the PC needs to have the time for a good review process.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of the workshop is to offer effective support for the exchange of knowledge and methodological approaches between scholars from different scientific fields, by highlighting their similarities and differences.
We are expecting to have contributions that are able to capture this interdisciplinary aspect and prepare the scientific community to a common ground beyond the state of the art of any individual discipline.
IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: FIRM ULTIMATE DEADLINE! June 12th 2011 Peer Review Communications: July 11th, 2011
Camera Ready: July 31th, 2011
AICOL Workshop: August 16th, 2011
Publication: November/December 2011 (LNAI volume) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) Min.3000 words and max. 15000 words.
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
PUBLICATIONS
The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The publication will be released in December, following the Springer process.
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Daniële Bourcier (CERSA-CNRS, Paris, France)
Pompeu Casanovas (UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Barcelona, Spain)
Monica Palmirani (CIRSFID – University of Bologna, Italy)
Ugo Pagallo (University of Turin, Italy)
Giovanni Sartor (European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy)
The JURIX conference has been running annually for over 20 years and provides an international forum for both academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics to meet and share their research and ideas to advance the field of legal knowledge systems.
The 24th edition of JURIX will be hosted by the University of Vienna. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:
Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
Legal inference and argumentation;
Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
Management of legal information in the semantic web;
XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.
The deadline for paper submission is September 5th, 2011. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site. Workshops and a selection of conference papers will be published in the electronic journal Jusletter IT.
Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email.
Programme Chair:
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK.
Local Organisation Chair:
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria in co-operation with University of Brno, Czech Republic and Austrian Computer Society OCG, Vienna.
Important Dates:
Submissions of papers: Monday 5th September 2011
Proposals for workshops and tutorials: Monday 12th September 2011
Bij het Centrum voor Recht & ICT van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is een promotieplaats beschikbaar voor onderzoek naar motivering van bewijsbeslissingen in strafzaken – een argumentatiemodel en richtlijnen voor softwareondersteuning. Meer informatie is te vinden op
