- From: Rinke Hoekstra <hoekstra@lri.jur.uva.nl>
- Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:23:17 +0100
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Your help with circulating this announcement is much appreciated. Apologies for multiple postings ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers / Call for Participation / Call for Contributions 2nd International Workshop on Standards for Representing Legal Documents 8 December 2004, Berlin, Germany Organized in conjunction with JURIX 2004, the 17th Annual International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems http://gi-fg612.fokus.fraunhofer.de/Jurix2004/ PDF Version of this CFP can be found at: http://www.lri.jur.uva.nl/new/docs/cfp/Standards-cfp.pdf Public administrations, enterprises and citizens are confronted with a growing quantity and complexity of rules, regulations and case law, from various sources at international, European, national, local and enterprise growing quantity and complexity of rules, regulations and case law, from various sources at international, European, national, local and enterprise level. This development raises various issues regarding the manageability of these texts for both drafters and users. Moreover, due to 'globalisation' and 'European directives', legal practitioners have to access legal sources from other jurisdictions than their own, and apply it to cases (e.g. in cross-border labour cases, cross-border delivery of services and family law cases with partners from different countries). Developing standards for the structure and content of (para)legal documents using techniques from ICT – most notably XML and Semantic Web technologies like OWL/RDF – have shown to be helpful in improving the access to, and development, quality and maintenance of these legal sources. On the other hand, the implementation and deployment of such standards within existing business processes and ICT facilities of organizations raises many issues of its own. This workshop intends to provide a forum for end-users, researchers and developers from various organizations and backgrounds involved in this field: publishers, public administrations, legal practitioners, academics, software developers etc. Workshop Contributions We welcome short position statements (max. 2-3 pages) addressing aspects of standard development and implementation in the legal field. Papers and expression of interest should be sent to one of the organizers, preferably by email, in plain text, PDF or PostScript format, before November 21st 2004. The organizers plan to arrange publication of extended versions of the accepted contributions. Organizers Prof. Dr. Tom van Engers & Dr. Radboud Winkels Leibniz Center for Law, UvA Amsterdam, Netherlands vanengers@lri.jur.uva.nl R.G.F.Winkels@uva.nl Dr. Monica Palmirani University of Bologna Bologna, Italy palmirani@cirfid.unibo.it Mr. Luc van den Berghe CEN Management Centre – CEN/ISSS Brussels, Belgium luc.vandenberghe@cenorm.be Dr. Tom Gordon ECCO, Fraunhofer FOKUS Berlin, Germany Thomas.Gordon@fokus.fraunhofer.de -- -------------------------------------- Rinke Hoekstra hoekstra@lri.jur.uva.nl T: +31-20-5253499 F: +31-20-5253495 Leibniz Center for Law, Law Faculty University of Amsterdam, PO Box 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands --------------------------------------
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