Apologies for cross-postings. *************************************** Call for contributions, First International Akoma Ntoso Conference (IANC 2015) http://www.akomantoso.org/akoma-ntoso-conference/ August 1st 2015, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) *************************************** Objectives *************************************** 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 *************************************** 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 *************************************** Paper Submission Deadline: June 19th, 2015 Authors Notification: June 30th, 2015 Camera Ready Paper: July 10th, 2015 Program Chairs *************************************** Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, OASIS LegalDocML Co-chair Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, OASIS LegalDocML Co-chair Local Organizer *************************************** 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 *************************************** To be announced Publication Details *************************************** 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.