Ongoing Legislative XML Projects Brazil Joo Alberto Lima

On-going Legislative XML Projects Brazil João Alberto Lima joaolima@senado. gov. br

Summary • Introduction – Brazil – Legislative technique in Brazil • Projects – Federal Constitution in XML (2002~) – CBDT Project (2005~) – “Lex. ML Brasil” Project (2006~)

Brazil Population 180 M National Language Portuguese Form of Government Federative Republic Capital Brasilia (National Congress) Number of States 27 – (Legislative Assembly) Municipalities 5660 – (City Council)

# Normative Acts Period: 1988~2004 (16 years) • Federal • States • Municipalities Source: 109. 338 813. 735 2. 374. 874 3. 297. 947 Quantidade de Normas Editadas no Brasil: Período 05/10/1988 a 05/10/2004. IBPT - Instituto Brasileiro de Planejamento Tributário.

Other Issues • Legal Information – Heterogeneity • Several subjects in one law – Paralelism • Several laws about one subject • Consolidation – Uncertainty • Before 1998: Implicit Revocation – “All provisions on the contrary are hereby revoked” • “Ignorantia legis non excusat” – Reali: “it’s a fiction of law to say that “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”

Legislative Technique • Complementary Law 95 (26 February 1998) Adopts provisions concerning preparation, text, amendment, and consolidation of law. – Federal Level • Not mandatory to States and Municipalities – Article Grouping • Part; Book; Title; Chapter; Section; Subsection – Article Subdivision • Caput < Inciso < Alinea < Item • Paragraph< Inciso< Alinea< Item

Federal Constitution in XML • Promulgated in 1988 – 52 Amendments • XML Pilot Project (2002) • Markup – Manual • Consolidation & Publishing (Html and PDF) – Automatic • Standards/Recommendations – XML, XSL-FO, XLink (Bi-directional Navigation) • http: //legis. senado. gov. br/con 1988/index. htm

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Amendments History

CBDT Project • Coleção Brasileira de Direito das Telecomunicações (Brazilian Collection of Telecommunication Law) • Universidade de Brasília (Un. B) – Faculty of Law • GETEL – Group of Studies on Telecommunication Law - (Prof. Dr. Márcio Iorio) – Department of Information Science • Ph. D student (João Lima) / Prof. Dr. Murilo Bastos da Cunha • Action Research Approach (Qualitative Methodology) – Action Objective • Organize the information about Brazilian Telecommunication Law in a Information Base – Research Objective • Define a model, ontologically strucutured, to organize legal information – Guarino & Welty, Ontoclean Methodology • Standards/Recommendation – XML, XSL-FO, Doc. Book, ISO Topic Maps, Protégé Ontology Editor • http: //www. anatel. gov. br/biblioteca/publicacao/default. asp (2 books)

Java Program Doc. Book Ontology Editor + TMTab . XTM Topic Map Site Commented Glossary Law + Case Law + Normative Acts + Doctrine Thematic Bibliography Book Master Index

Glossary

Index (> 10. 000 entries)

“Lex. ML Brasil” Project • Main Reference: Italian NIR Project – URN & DTD / XML Schema • “Tropicalization” – – Translate Elements and Attributes Adapt to LCP-95 (Brazilian Legislative Technique) Upper. Camel. Case & lower. Camel. Case Include Bills • Standards/Recommendations – XML, URN, XML/Schema, XSL, OAI-PMH, DC, Daisy (Digital Talk Book - ANSI/NISO Z 39. 86) • http: //www. lexml. gov. br

e-gov Interoperability Initiatives • Legislative Branch – Interlegis Institute – www. interlegis. gov. br • Executive Branch – e. PING - www. eping. e. gov. br • Judiciary Branch – G-INP - www. cnj. gov. br

Interoperability of Legal Information LEGISLATIVO LEXml EXECUTIVO JUDICIÁRIO

URN Resolver • URN Resolver Prototype urn: lex: br. . . url-1 url-2 url-n

URN Resolver Result Page

Set <Norma> one record for each “urn” <dc: title>Lei nº 10. 673, de 16 de maio de 2003</dc: title> <dc: description>Altera dispositivos da Lei nº 5. 517, de 23 de outubro de 1968, que dispõe sobre o exercício da profissão de Médico Veterinário e cria os Conselhos Federal e Regionais de Medicina Veterinária. </dc: description> <dc: date>16/05/2003</dc: date> <dc: publisher>Imprensa Nacional</dc: publisher> <dc: identifier> urn: lex: br: federal: lei: 2003 -05 -16; 10673 urn: lex. . . </dc: identifier>

Set <Item> one record for each “url” <dc: identifier> urn: lex. . . urn: lex: br: federal: lei: 2003 -05 -16; 10673 </dc: identifier> <dc: type>Publicação Oficial</dc: type> <dc: publisher>Imprensa Nacional</dc: publisher> <dc: format>application/pdf</dc: format> <dc: identifier>http: //www. in. gov. br/imprensa/jsp/jornais completos/visualizacao/pdf/visualiza_pdf. jsp? jornal=do&a mp; secao=1& pagina=1& data=19/05/2003 </dc: identifier> http: //. . .

OAI-PMH • Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting http: //www. openarchives. org/ Data Provider Data Provider Data Agregator Service Provider

OAI-PMH Verbs Service Provider Requests (based on http) Identify List. Metadata. Formats List. Sets List. Identifiers List. Records Get. Record Data Provider Response (encoded xml) General Information Metadata Formats Internet Structure Identifiers Metadata Record

On-going Legislative XML Projects Brazil João Alberto Lima joaolima@senado. gov. br