non-profit organization
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OASIS
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LegalDocML and LegalRuleML are affiliated committees and standard proposals of the LegalXML committee.
Origin and organization
The LegalXML initiative was launched in 1998 by lawyers, court administrators, academics and IT experts. The organization of several hundreds of members in 2000, joined in 2002 the international non-profit consortium
OASIS
In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environmentAkoma Ntoso (from the
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
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United States Library of Congress
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created th Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso challenge in July 2013 to create representations of selected US bills using the most recent Akoma Ntoso standard within a couple months for a $5000 prize, and th Legislative XML Data Mapping challenge in September 2013 to produce a data map for US bill XML and UK bill XML to the most recent Akoma Ntoso schema within a couple months for a $10000 prize.
*OASIS LegalRuleML TC: aims to enable legal arguments to be created, evaluated, and compared using rule representation tools.
*OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC: defines standards using XML to create and transmit legal documents among attorneys, courts, litigants, and others.
Previous technical committees that are no longer active were:
*OASIS LegalXML eNotarization TC: this committee was active from 2002 to 2010, developing technical requirements to govern self-proving electronic legal information.
Standards
LegalDocumentML TC has adopted Akoma Ntoso 1.0 as OASIS standard for the exchange of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents in August 2018. This standard is adapted to various national or supranational bodies by means of the creation of application profiles.
LegalRuleML TC has adopted, as a first step of its standardization process, the LegalRuleML Core Specifications 1.0 for the definition of normative rules in April 2020.
LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC has adopted Electronic Court Filing specifications version 4.01 (ECF 4.01) as an OASIS standard for the definition of the components, operations and messages of a court filing system in Mai 2013. In April 2019, the committee has adopted in a first step of its standardization process a new version of the specifications, ECF 5.0, as well as the specifications of a compliant web service profile.