Artificial Intelligence and Law · 2007 · 23 citations · 8 references
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The Leibniz Center for Law participates in the Digitale Uitwisseling Ruimtelijke Plannen (DURP) project, which develops an XML-based format for exchanging spatial regulations, opening new opportunities to study legal aspects within Computer Science & Law. This paper reports the authors’ experiences with the DURP initiative. The authors examined and critiqued DURP and the Dutch Ministry’s metadata for regulatory documents, identified gaps in legal knowledge representation for GIS, extended the METALex XML schema to support spatial regulation exchange with maps, and built a prototype that integrates GML spatial planning data with XML using OWL with minimal changes. The inventory of issues produced by the authors served as input to the DURP standardisation effort. Boer et al.
The Leibniz Center for Law is involved in the project Digitale Uitwisseling Ruimtelijke Plannen [DURP ( http://www.vrom.nl/durp ); digital exchange of spatial plans] which develops a XML-based digital exchange format for spatial regulations. Involvement in the DURP project offers new possibilities to study a legal area that hasn’t yet been studied to the extent it deserves in the field of Computer Science & Law. We studied and criticised the work of the DURP project and the Dutch Ministry of internal affairs on metadata for regulatory documents, and made an inventory of issues related to legal knowledge representation that it felt were not sufficiently covered by current initiatives in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) field. This inventory was an input to the DURP standardisation effort. In a second phase of the project we extended the METALex XML schema (cf. Boer et al. 2002; Boer et al. 2003) for ‘regular’ legal sources that we developed in the past for geospatial regulatory information, in order to support exchange of spatial regulations, including the associated geospatial information in the form of maps. We developed a prototype application and demonstrated how the spatial planning information in GML can be combined with XML with only minimal changes, using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). This paper describes our experiences.
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