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

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Legal and Documentalistic Subelements

Remarks on Biagioli`s Concept of Legal Provisions

V Legislative XML WorkshopTowards European standards for legislative documents and knowledgeItaly, Florence, 14 – 16 June 2006

by Harald Hoffmann - Friedrich Lachmayer

METADATA-1110 Vienna, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 24

Carlo Biagioli structures legal texts by creatingsubelements (“provisions”). This methodical approach

is effective as it provides for specific results(e.g. deontic consequences).

Our contribution tries to differentiate betweenlegal 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

Text

Meaning

Legal Act

InterpretationText

Meaning

Legal Act eDocument

TextText

Meaning Meaning

Legal Act eDocument

TextText

Meaning Meaning

Legal Act eDocument

TextText

Meaning Meaning

Legal Act eDocument

TextText

Meaning Meaning

Legal Act

Legal ActProvision

legal

Text

Meaning

Legal Subelements

Legal Act

how to create the subset?ex ante – ex post

Legal Subelements

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Meaning

Text

Meaning

Text

“Article”“Legal Term”

eDocument

Text

Meaning

Documentalistic Subelements

Provisiondocumentalistic

Text

Meaning

eDocument

Documentalistic Subelements

Provisiondocumentalistic

Text

Meaning

eDocument

how to create the subset?ex ante – ex post

Text

Meaning

Text

“Article” “Legal Term”

Meaning

Legal Act eDocument

TextText

Meaning Meaning

Legal Act eDocumentProvision

documentalistic

Text

Meaning

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Legal Act eDocumentProvision

documentalistic

Text

Meaning

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Ontologyof

Norms

Ontologyof

eDocuments

Legal Act eDocumentProvision

documentalistic

Text

Meaning

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Ontologyof

Norms

Ontologyof

eDocuments

Ontology ofdoc. Provisions

Ontology ofleg. Provisions

Legal Act eDocumentProvision

documentalistic

Text

Meaning

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Ontologyof

Norms

Ontologyof

eDocuments

Ontology ofdoc. Provisions

Ontology ofleg. Provisions

Legal Act eDocumentProvision

documentalistic

Text

Meaning

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Ontologyof

Norms

Ontologyof

eDocuments

Ontology ofdoc. Provisions

Ontology ofleg. Provisions

Metasystem

Legal Act eDocumentProvision

documentalistic

Text

Meaning

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Legal Act eDocumentProvision

documentalistic

Text

Meaning

Provisionlegal

Text

Meaning

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Text

Meaning

Proposal for Diskussion:

Ontologyof

Norms

Ontologyof

eDocuments

Ontology ofsynthetical Provisions

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Text

Meaning

Ontologyof

Norms

Ontologyof

eDocuments

Ontology ofsynthetical Provisions

Metasystem

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Text

Meaning

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Text

Meaning

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Text

Meaning

Potential Direction: Synthesis of Entities

Legal Act = eDocument

Text

Meaning

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Text

Meaning

Automatic Generationof Consequences

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Proposal for Diskussion:

Ontologies

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Automatic Generationof Consequences

Ontologies

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

Automatic Generationof Consequences

Ontologies

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

User

Automatic Generationof Consequences

Ontologies

Legal Act eDocumentsynth. Provision

User

Automatic Generationof Consequences

Comfortable User Interface

New Conceptof Legal Acts

Legal Ontology

and Provisions

Automatic Generationof Consequences

Harald.Hoffmann @metadat.comFriedrich.Lachmayer @ metadat.com