Subcommittee Creation Request for Legislation SC

Submitted on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 19:08
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Submitter's Name: John Joergensen
TC Name: LegalCiteM
TC Email Address: legalcitem@lists.oasis-open.org
Subcommittee Name: Subcommittee on Legislation, constitutions, treaties and
Parliamentary documents
Subcommittee Email List Name: legalcitem-legislation
Statement of Purpose: The LegalCite Legislation subcommittee shall identify
the
relevant features of Legislation, constitutions, treaties and Parliamentary
documents needed for their identification and description in the context of
legal citations. Scope of the documents to include to be determined by the
SC.
Emphasis is given on international reach, support for multiple languages,
multiple jurisdictions and multiple uses. Of great importance are primary
source
legal materials which are most binding in nature, and which are most cited in
other documents. Features are organized in identifying vs. accessory,
required
vs. desired, and describing the cited document vs. describing the
citation.
Deliverables: 1) A collection of document types and a collection of use cases
outlining the types of materials and citation types that exist for these
materials. These use cases should include examples from different user
communities (i.e. lawyers, bureaucrats, academics, business people, general
public) as well as consider different languages, and jurisdictions. 2)
Overview
of the scope of the SC and first list of relevant document types 3) Full list
of
features relevant for the documents in scope in this SC.
Chair: Monica Palmirani, Melanie Knapp, co-chairs
Approval Link:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/legalcitem/download.php/52429/legalcitem-minutes-2014-03-05-draft.docx
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http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/TCADMIN