Akoma Ntoso summer school(s) and IANC

[monica.palmirani <monica.palmirani@unibo.it>]

Dear LegalDocML members,

it is a great pleasure to inform you that all the draft material 
concerning the AKN summer school (USA), LEX2015 (IT) and IANC2015 is 
quite ready. Now I need your great help for tuning the final versions 
and for refining all the material.

Brochures: see in attachment the three main flyers of the three main events.

Websites:
- Summer School in US: http://aknschool.cirsfid.unibo.it/
- Summer School in LEX(it):http://summerschoollex.cirsfid.unibo.it/
- IANC2015 conference: http://www.akomantoso.org/akoma-ntoso-conference/
- NEW web site of Akoma Ntoso: http://www.akomantoso.org/

Scientific Committee of IANC2015: I would like to each member to the 
LegalDocML TC to join to the IANC2015 scientific committee.
See this web page: 
http://www.akomantoso.org/akoma-ntoso-conference/organizing-committee/

Call for Contributions of IANC2015 in attachment (cfp-IANC-v4.txt).

If your company/institute/body/public administration would like to join 
in the sponsorship section with a logo, it is really welcome.

Any comment in order to improve all the material is really appreciated.

Best,
Monica

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School of Law
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
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Tel +39 051 277217
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Attachment: AKN CONFERENCE1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Attachment: brochure_2015_US_DEF.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Attachment: brochure_2015_LEX1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Apologies for cross-postings.

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Call for contributions, 
First International Akoma Ntoso Conference (IANC 2015)
http://www.akomantoso.org

August 1st 2015, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA)
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Objectives
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With the upcoming release of the new OASIS standard called Akoma
Ntoso, the digital representation in XML of legal and legislative
documents is coming of age. Increasingly local and national
Parliaments, Official Journals and Gazettes, and legislative 
bodies are adopting, including or considering to switch to Akoma 
Ntoso due to its completeness and flexibility. Many 
organizations are considering its adoption even outside of 
legislation, exploring document types ranging from judgments to 
hansards, from parliamentary orders of the day to amendment 
lists. 

IANC enlists the participation of the main actors and stakeholders
involved in this technological and cultural process with the aim of
sharing experiences and building sustainable capacity and know-how
in the Akoma Ntoso community.

For these reasons we encourage practitioners, public
employees, academics, researchers and activists to contribute and
share their experiences in searching, evaluating, adopting, adapting,
providing tools and training personnel in using Akoma Ntoso for legal,
legislative and other types of documents. 

Topics 
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Topics sought after for the
conference include, but are not limited to: 

* Experiences in the adoption of Akoma Ntoso in legal and legislative
bodies
* Interactive tools for legal and legislative staff
* Document repositories for legal, legislative and other types of
documents
* Access mechanisms and the Akoma Ntoso naming convention
* Semantic Web and Akoma Ntoso
* How Akoma Ntoso can help activism and hacktivism 
* Comparative survey of Legal XML standards
* Legal Open Data and Open Access


Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline: June 19th, 2015
Authors Notification: June 30th, 2015
Camera Ready Paper: July 10th, 2015
 
Program Chairs
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Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, OASIS LegalDocML Co-chair
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, OASIS LegalDocML Co-chair

Local Organizer
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Melanie Knapp
Head of Reference and Instructional Services
George Mason University Law Library
3301 Fairfax Drive, MSN 1G1
Arlington, VA 22201-4426
Tel: (703) 993-8111

Program Committee
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To be announced
Publication Details
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions of theoretical
or practical relevance, experience reports, case studies, 
demonstrations or applications.
Papers as well as abstracts must be in English and may be submitted at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ianc2015

Abstracts (400-500 words)
Full Papers (10-15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)

Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully
peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

All accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series.