on-going legislative xml projects brazil joão alberto lima [email protected]
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Summary
• Introduction – Brazil– Legislative technique in Brazil
• Projects – Federal Constitution in XML (2002~)– CBDT Project (2005~)– “LexML Brasil” Project (2006~)
Brazil
Population 180MNational Language PortugueseForm of Government Federative RepublicCapital Brasilia (National Congress)Number of States 27 – (Legislative Assembly)Municipalities 5660 – (City Council)
# Normative ActsPeriod: 1988~2004 (16 years)
• Federal 109.338
• States 813.735
• Municipalities 2.374.874 3.297.947
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Source: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)
– 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
Adopts provisions concerning preparation, text, amendment, and consolidation of law.
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, XSL-FO, XLink (Bi-directional Navigation)
• http://legis.senado.gov.br/con1988/index.htm
Timeline
Inverse Links
Amendments History
CBDT Project• Coleção Brasileira de Direito das Telecomunicações
(Brazilian Collection of Telecommunication Law)• Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
– Faculty of Law • GETEL – Group of Studies on Telecommunication Law - (Prof. Dr. Márcio Iorio)
– Department of Information Science • PhD 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, XSL-FO, DocBook, ISO Topic Maps, Protégé Ontology Editor
• http://www.anatel.gov.br/biblioteca/publicacao/default.asp (2 books)
Ontology Editor + TMTab
JavaProgram
DocBook
CommentedLaw +
Case Law +Normative Acts +
Doctrine
Glossary ThematicBook
MasterIndex
Bibliography.XTM
Topic MapSite
Glossary
Index (> 10.000 entries)
“LexML Brasil” Project• Main Reference: Italian NIR Project
– URN & DTD / XML Schema
• “Tropicalization”– Translate Elements and Attributes– Adapt to LCP-95 (Brazilian Legislative Technique)– UpperCamelCase & lowerCamelCase– Include Bills
• Standards/Recommendations– XML, URN, XML/Schema, XSL, OAI-PMH, DC,
Daisy (Digital Talk Book - ANSI/NISO Z39.86)
• http://www.lexml.gov.br
e-gov Interoperability Initiatives
• Legislative Branch– Interlegis Institute – www.interlegis.gov.br
• Executive Branch– ePING - www.eping.e.gov.br
• Judiciary Branch– G-INP - www.cnj.gov.br
Interoperability of Legal Information
LEXmlLEXml
EXECUTIVO
LEGISLATIVO
JUDICIÁRIO
URN Resolver
• URN Resolver Prototype
urn:lex:br...url-1url-2url-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</dc:identifier>
urn:lex...
Set <Item>one record for each “url”
<dc:identifier>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/jsp/
jornaiscompletos/visualizacao/pdf/visualiza_pdf.jsp?jornal=do&secao=1&pagina=1&data=19/05/2003
</dc:identifier>
urn:lex...
http://...
OAI-PMH
• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvestinghttp://www.openarchives.org/
DataProvider
DataProvider
DataProvider
DataProvider
DataProvider
ServiceProvider
DataAgregator
ServiceProvider
OAI-PMH Verbs
Service Provider
Requests (based on http)
Identify
ListMetadataFormats
ListSets
ListIdentifiers
ListRecords
GetRecord
Data Provider
Response (encoded xml)
General Information
Metadata Formats
Set Structure
Identifiers
Metadata Records
Metadata Record
Internet
