V Legislative XML Workshop Towards European standards for

V Legislative XML Workshop Towards European standards for legislative documents and knowledge Italy, Florence, 14 – 16 June 2006 Legal and Documentalistic Subelements Remarks on Biagioli`s Concept of Legal Provisions by Harald Hoffmann - Friedrich Lachmayer METADAT A-1110 Vienna, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 24

Carlo Biagioli structures legal texts by creating subelements (“provisions”). This methodical approach is effective as it provides for specific results (e. g. deontic consequences). Our contribution tries to differentiate between legal and documentalistic subelements. Target is to achieve a synthesis between them, resulting in a new concept of legal acts and their subelements, a new role of legal ontologies, enabling automatic generation of consequences, and in a more comfortable user interface.

Legal Act Meaning Text

Legal Act Meaning Text Interpretation

Legal Act Meaning Text e. Document Meaning Text

Legal Act Meaning Text e. Document Meaning Text

Legal Act Meaning Text e. Document Meaning Text

Legal Act Meaning Text e. Document Meaning Text

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Legal Act Provision legal Meaning Text Legal Subelements

Legal Act Provision legal Meaning Text how to create the subset? ex ante – ex post Legal Subelements

Meaning Text “Legal Term” “Article”

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e. Document Provision documentalistic Meaning how to create the subset? ex ante – ex post Text Documentalistic Subelements

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Legal Act Provision legal Meaning Text e. Document Provision documentalistic Meaning Text

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Metasystem Ontology of Norms Ontology of leg. Provisions Legal Act Provision legal Meaning Text Ontology of e. Documents Ontology of doc. Provisions e. Document Provision documentalistic Meaning Text

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Proposal for Diskussion: Legal Act synth. e. Document Provision Meaning Text

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Potential Direction: Synthesis of Entities Legal Act e. Document synth. Provision Meaning Text

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Proposal for Diskussion: Automatic Generation of Consequences Legal Act e. Document synth. Provision Meaning Text

Ontologies Automatic Generation of Consequences Legal Act e. Document synth. Provision

Ontologies Automatic Generation of Consequences Legal Act e. Document synth. Provision

Ontologies Automatic Generation of Consequences Legal Act e. Document synth. Provision User

Ontologies Automatic Generation of Consequences Legal Act e. Document synth. Provision User

Legal Ontology Automatic Generation of Consequences New Concept of Legal Acts and Provisions Comfortable User Interface

Harald. Hoffmann @metadat. com Friedrich. Lachmayer @ metadat. com