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AKOMANTOSO

AKOMA NTOSO ("Architecture for Knowledge-Oriented Management of African Normative Texts using Open Standards and Ontologies") defines a “machine readable” set of simple technology-neutral representations (XML) of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents.

AKOMA NTOSO XML schema make “accessible” structure and semantic components of digital documents supporting the creation of high value information services to deliver the power of ICTs to support efficiency and accountability in the parliamentary, legislative and judiciary contexts.

AKOMA NTOSO is an initiative of "Africa i-Parliament Action Plan" (www.parliaments.info) a programme of UN/DESA.

AKOMANTOSO UPDATES

Legislative Drafting Recommendation Workshop – (10-11 December 2007) Dec 10, 2007
The international workshop “Practical Drafting Recommendations for Africa” was held on 10-11 December 2007 at the Hatfield Campus - University of Pretoria, South Africa as a follow up of the International Conference “African Legal Resources: Challenges and Opportunities of Legislative Informatics” (21-22 March 2007) where the first draft of “Practical Drafting Guidelines for Africa” were presented.
AKOMA NTOSO release : 08/06/2007 Aug 05, 2007
Differences between release 08/06/2007 and 01/02/2007. This is an bug-fix release for managing the expected content model of elements
AKOMA NTOSO release : 26/06/2006 Jun 25, 2007
Differences between release 26/06/2006 and 16/05/2006. Only a few bug fixes:
AKOMANTOSO endorsed (21-22 March 2007) Mar 21, 2007
AKOMANTOSO was endorsed at the “African Legal Resources: challenge and opportunities of Legislative Informatics” – International Conference - Abuja (21-22 March 2007), organized under the auspices of the Pan African Parliament and in collaboration with the Parliament of Nigeria.
AKOMA NTOSO release : 01/02/2007 Jan 31, 2007
Differences between release 01/02/2007 and 23/11/2006. The Naming Convention is introduced and officially raised to standard level. Correspondingly, section 10 of this document has been mostly emptied and now refers to the external document AKOMA NTOSO Naming Convention. The element and attribute synopsis has been completely revised and reorganized. The schema only received minor modifications covering only the rename of the minutes element into debaterecord, a few bug fixes in attributes, plus the support for differences in force and efficacy periods (Please note: an intermediate, non official release dated 30/11/2006 already contains some of these modifications).
New Naming Convention to be added to AKOMANTOSO (Jan 2007) Jan 01, 2007
In order to reference digital documents in a consistent way and independent from location and platforms there was need to provide a standard referencing mechanism.
AKOMA NTOSO acknowledged as best practice Dec 01, 2006
AKOMA NTOSO has been used as 'best practice' in an initiative of European Committee for Standardization (CEN) to promote 'Open XML Interchange Format for Legal and Legislative Resources'. We are all very proud of this acknowledgement that rewards us for the long and hard work that we have carried out together and also provides an authoritative confirmation of the soundness of our vision and approach. It also takes Africa in position of leadership in such important field.
AKOMA NTOSO release : 23/11/2006 Nov 22, 2006
Differences between release 23/11/2006 and 23/10/2006. A minor release covering mostly only the attributes and elements of the metadata section.
AKOMA NTOSO release : 23/10/2006 Oct 22, 2006
Differences between release 23/10/2006 and 26/06/2006. Many major modifications have been brought into this release. Metadata are now completely reorganized, introducing the organization in four levels and a section on amendment analysis. Within document, new elements have been added to handle strange hierarchies, line and page numbering, and multiple and range-based modifications and references. In detail:
AKOMA NTOSO release : 16/05/2006 May 15, 2006
Differences between release 16/05/2006 and 25/04/2006
AKOMA NTOSO release : 25/04/2006 Apr 24, 2006
Differences between release 25/04/2006 and release 15/01/2006
AKOMA NTOSO release : 15/01/2006 Jan 14, 2006
Differences between release 15/01/2006 and release 15/11/2005
AKOMA NTOSO release : 15/11/2005 Nov 14, 2005
Differences between release 15/11/2005 and release 15/09/2005
Legislative XML workshop documentation Jun 30, 2006
Documentation of the Legislative XML workshop held in 2006 is available online.
AKOMA NTOSO at the V Legislative XML Workshop Jun 30, 2006
AKOMA NTOSO was presented at the V Legislative XML Workshop in June 2006
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