- From: John McClure <jmcclure@hypergrove.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:40:52 -0800
- To: "SemanticWeb" <semantic-web@w3.org>, <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
New Legal Organization Pushes Semantic Web ========================================= Legal-RDF, a new organization in the legal industry, has placed the Revised Code of Washington and the Washington State Constitution onto the Semantic Web. This material can be the basis for next generation Internet applications that apply "reasoning" software against legal documents. The new organization is currently conducting a membership drive among Washington State firms, associations, and others who are interested in advanced technologies for the Semantic Web. Legal-RDF is now annotating the state laws and constitution with keywords that allow powerful tools to extract meaningful information from the legal text. These keywords are defined in the context of ten inter-acting ontologies: Actor & Role; Scene & Prop; Theme & Drama; Quality & Quantity; and Script & Basic-Grammar. Its architecture refines typical OWL schemas by its choice of predicates: they are possessive verbs (e.g., has, had, willHave, willNotHave, etc.) and existential verbs (e.g., isA, willBeA, wasNotA, etc.). The recently-released paper, "Tagging Legal Text (How-to)" discusses these concepts, and is available at http://www.hypergrove.com/legalrdf.org/LegalMarkup.html, Legal-RDF is a non-profit organization sponsored by among others the National Center for State Courts. John McClure, its director, was previously architect for the Data Consortium and an early member of Legal XML, both non-profit Internet standards organizations in the legal and real estate industries. His company, Hypergrove Engineering, specializes in Semantic Web tools for legal contracts negotiation, management, and workflow. Thank you! John McClure, Director http://www.legal-RDF.org http://www.legal-XHTML.org Box 2002 Port Townsend WA 98368 360-379-3838
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