Transcript Legislative XML Brazilian Experience
On-going Legislative XML Projects
Brazil
João Alberto Lima [email protected]
Summary • Introduction
– Brazil – Legislative technique in Brazil
• Projects
– Federal Constitution in XML (2002~) – CBDT Project (2005~) – “LexML Brasil” Project (2006~)
Brazil
Population 180M National Language Portuguese Form of Government Federative Republic Capital Brasilia (National Congress) Number of States 27 – ( Legislative Assembly) Municipalities 5660 – (City Council)
# Normative Acts
Period: 1988~2004 (16 years) • Federal • States • Municipalities 109.338
813.735
2.374.874
3.297.947
2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Fed Est
Source: Quantidade de Normas Editadas no Brasil: Período 05/10/1988 a 05/10/2004.
IBPT - Instituto Brasileiro de Planejamento Tributário.
Mun
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)
Adopts provisions concerning preparation, text, amendment, and consolidation of law.
– 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
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
•
C
oleção
B
rasileira de
D
ireito das
T
elecomunicações (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)
Java Program
DocBook
Ontology Editor + TMTab
.XTM
Topic Map Site
Commented Law + Case Law + Normative Acts + Doctrine Glossary Thematic Book Bibliography Master Index
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
LEGISLATIVO EXECUTIVO LEXml JUDICIÁRIO
URN Resolver • URN Resolver Prototype
urn:lex:br...
url-1 url-2 url-n
URN Resolver Result Page
Set
one record for each “urn”
Lei nº 10.673, de 16 de maio de 2003
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
.
16/05/2003
Imprensa Nacional
urn:lex...
Set
one record for each “url”
urn:lex:br:federal:lei:2003-05-16;10673
Publicação Oficial
Imprensa Nacional
application/pdf
urn:lex...
http://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/jsp/jsp/jornais completos/visualizacao/pdf/visualiza_pdf.jsp?jornal=do&a mp;secao=1&pagina=1&data=19/05/2003
http://...
OAI-PMH
•
O
pen
A
rchives
I
nitiative
P
rotocol for
M
etadata
H
arvesting http://www.openarchives.org/
Data Provider Data Provider Data Provider Data Provider Data Provider Data Agregator Service Provider Service Provider
OAI-PMH Verbs
Service Provider Requests (based on http)
Identify ListMetadataFormats ListSets ListIdentifiers ListRecords GetRecord
Internet Data Provider Response (encoded xml)
General Information Metadata Formats Set Structure Identifiers Metadata Records Metadata Record
On-going Legislative XML Projects
Brazil
João Alberto Lima [email protected]