OASIS Members and other interested parties,
OASIS is pleased to announce that LegalRuleML Core
Specification Version 1.0 from the OASIS LegalRuleML TC [1]
has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification.Â
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.
This Committee Specification is an OASIS deliverable,
completed and approved by the TC and fully ready for testing
and implementation.
The prose specifications and related files are available
here:
LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0
Committee Specification 01
08 May 2018
HTML (Authoritative):Â
Editable source:Â
PDF:Â
XSD schemas:Â
RelaxNG schemas:Â
XSLT transformations:Â
XSD-conversion drivers:Â
RDFS metamodel:Â
Metamodel diagrams:Â
Examples:Â
Distribution ZIP file
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of
the prose specification and related files in a ZIP
distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:
Members of the LegalRuleML TC [1] approved this
specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification had
been released for public review as required by the TC Process
[2]. The vote to approve as a Committee Specification passed
[3], and the document is now available online in the OASIS
Library as referenced above.
Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone
and our thanks to the reviewers who provided feedback on the
specification drafts to help improve the quality of the work.
========== Additional references:
[1] OASIS LegalRuleML TCÂ
[2] Public reviews:Â
* 30-day public review, 13 February 2017:
 - Comment resolution log:
* 15-day public review, 15 September 2017:
 - Comment resolution log:
[3] Approval ballot:Â
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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC AdministrationÂ
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