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Invitation to comment on LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0 – ends October 2nd

We are pleased to announce that the OASIS LegalRuleML TC members have recently approved a Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted it for a 15-day public review:

LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02
17 May 2017

What is LegalRuleML and why is it important?

Legal texts, e.g. legislation, regulations, contracts, and case law, are the source of norms, guidelines, and rules. As text, it is difficult to exchange specific information content contained in the texts between parties, to search for and extract structured the content from the texts, or to automatically process it further. Legislators, legal practitioners, and business managers are, therefore, impeded from comparing, contrasting, integrating, and reusing the contents of the texts, since any such activities are manual. In the current web-enabled context, where innovative eGovernment and eCommerce applications are increasingly deployed, it has become essential to provide machine-readable forms (generally in XML) of the contents of the text.

The objective of the LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0 is to define a standard (expressed with XML-schema and Relax NG and on the basis of Consumer RuleML 1.02) that is able to represent the particularities of the legal normative rules with a rich, articulated, and meaningful mark-up language.

LegalRuleML models:

– defeasibility of rules and defeasible logic;
– deontic operators (e.g., obligations, permissions, prohibitions, rights);
– semantic management of negation;
– temporal management of rules and temporality in rules;
– classification of norms (i.e., constitutive, prescriptive);
– jurisdiction of norms;
– isomorphism between rules and natural language normative provisions;
– identification of parts of the norms (e.g. bearer, conditions);
– authorial tracking of rules.

About the TC:

The OASIS LegalRuleML TC defines a rule interchange language for the legal domain. The work enables modeling and reasoning that allows implementers to structure, evaluate, and compare legal arguments constructed using the rule representation tools provided.

The TC is affiliated with the OASIS LegalXML Member Section. For more information on LegalRuleML, see the TC Charter at https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalruleml/charter.php.

Membership in the OASIS LegalRuleML TC is open to all interested persons.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 15 September 2017 at 00:00 UTC and ends 02 October 2017 at 23:59 UTC.

This release has been updated based on feedback from the first public review [1]. The comments received in that review and their resolution can be found at:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd01/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.xls
Changes since the first public review are highlighted in:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-csprd02-DIFF.pdf

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

Note that you must be subscribed to the comment mailing list before sending feedback. Instructions on how to subscribe can be found at https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=legalruleml

HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-csprd02.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-csprd02.html

Editable source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-csprd02.docx

Additional artifacts:
XSD schemas: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/xsd-schema/
RelaxNG schemas: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/relaxng/
XSLT transformations: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/xslt/
XSD-conversion drivers: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/generation/
RDFS metamodel: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/rdfs/
Metamodel diagrams: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/diagrams/
Examples: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/examples/

ZIP distribution file (complete):
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose document and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/csprd02/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about the specification and the LegalRuleML TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalruleml/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page, or directly at:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=legalruleml

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/legalruleml-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of “LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0”, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to the work of this Technical Committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

========== Additional references:
[1] Previous public review:
30-day public review, 10 February 2017
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201702/msg00000.html

[2] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalruleml/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-Limited-Mode
RF on Limited Terms Mode