RE: [legalxml-courtfiling-repository] Scope of Repository

["Lewis, Diane" <Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov>]

thanks Roger for your quick response... agreed we must step back and consider the big picture given that each LegalXML TC will be generating lots of work products that are associated....

having just attended a NIST workshop of namespaces i am learning the criticality of planning conceptually what the associated "spaces" (or domains) are within the legal community of interest... 

i am attending the Denver meeting sponsored by Global Justice... as will some of other colleagues so perhaps off-line we can explore the possibilities at this face to face encounter with some of our colleagues....   

idea about threads is good.... appreciate your thoughts keep them coming... diane 

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From: Winters, Roger [mailto:Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV]
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Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling-repository] Scope of Repository


Thank you, Diane, for getting this under way. I will post a number of
different messages that contain different issues I'm concerned with that
relate to the Repository. I'm hopeful that we can then "thread" discussion
of discrete issues and tie it all together when we (I'm assuming) develop a
proposal for the Technical Committee's consideration.

This regards the Scope of the Repository. I think it needs to be broader
than the Court Filing Technical Committee (TC) and should be planned with
all of Legal XML in mind. When I say "Legal XML," I would include the
"reconciliation" groups as well, if it is the case that our specifications
will be harmonized in some fundamental ways: for example, basic elements
used for persons, locations, and such.

I would not propose we assert authority over such broad scope yet. I think
it is something to be won from doing the task of creating and maintaining a
Trusted Repository for Specifications well (and before others do). To do
this, we should begin with the work products of the Court Filing TC and keep
the other "Legal XML" TCs in mind as we do so. I want to plan to include
their specifications in any event, since I believe the Legal XML
specifications (i.e., XML as used in legal documents of all types) should be
harmonized and inter-related.

As we are in the formative stages, it might be well to ask our liaisons to
the Reconciliation and other groups to announce that we have a group working
on this and welcome input and participation.

The question here is whether others feel differently regarding the issue of
Scope.

Regards,

Roger

Roger Winters 
Electronic Court Records Manager 
King County Department of Judicial Administration 
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