RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Charter: Mention Marked-Up Documents

["O'Brien, Robert" <Robert.OBrien@cas-satj.gc.ca>]

As a fellow representative of the Court User domain, I wholeheartedly
endorse Roger's sentiments. Many Court staff and managers don't even
want to hear about e-filing unless it will save them work (e.g. the area
of case management system data entry). 

We must try to leverage more from e-filing in this regard.

Robert O'B
Courts Administration Service 
Ottawa Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV [mailto:Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV] 
Sent: December 24, 2006 8:34 PM
To: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: john@greacen.net
Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] Charter: Mention Marked-Up Documents

Hello, John, and members of the List,

In perusing the draft revised Charter, I have realized we haven't
stressed that it is a goal of the TC to develop XML documents that would
be marked up in such a way as to automate data extraction and eliminate
duplicative data entry for court filings. Accordingly, I propose that
the draft Charter revision be amended to include language such as:

"the TC intends to develop techniques and principles for creating XML
legal documents for the purpose of data capture and re-use without
manual re-entry, across a broad spectrum of uses, including court
filings."

I hope others will endorse this added purpose and, if anyone has better
language, please offer it. 

Thanks!

Roger

Roger Winters
King County