Easier Linking of Legal Documents: The Work of the OASIS Legal Citation Technical Committee

The OASIS Legal Citation Markup Technical Committee has been hard at work creating a markup standard for all legal citations worldwide. This is an effort to work with all kinds of citations styles to facilitate machine readable links between documents in a standard format that all legal information suppliers, and all legal information programmers can use and understand. Several of the TC's subcommittees are working on use-cases for the various types of legal document citations (court documents, legislatiive documents, administrative documents, and secondary source documents), as well as the technical work on the standard itself. In this session, Mr. Heywood will report on the progress of the Technical Committee and its subcommittees this year, and why you should care.