LEX SUMMERSCHOOL "MANAGING LEGAL RESOURCES IN THE SEMANTIC WEB", 5 - 10 September 2011, Ravenna, Italy

INTERNATIONAL SUMMERSCHOOL "MANAGING LEGAL RESOURCES IN THE SEMANTIC WEB"
5 - 10 September 2011
Ravenna, Italy

About
The school aims at providing knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, judiciary, parliamentary and administrative documents. The course provides understanding of their impact in the different phases of the legislative and administrative process, awareness of the tools based on legal XML standards and of their constellations, and the ability to participate in the drafting and use of standard-compliant documents throughout law-making process. In particular we would like to create consciousness in the stakeholders in the legal domain about the benefits and the possibilities provided by the correct usage of Semantic Web technologies such as XML standards, ontologies, natural language processing techniques applied to legal texts, legal knowledge modelling and reasoning tools.

This edition of the LeX Summer School is organized in two courses:
- A Basic Course providing an introduction to XML web technologies and to basic technologies for drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative and legal documents;
- An Advanced Course providing in-depth analysis of the higher levels of Semantic Web technologies and of their application to the legal domain: modelling of modifications, procedures and legal knowledge.

LeX is an intensive 6-day, 8-hour-a-day program, that requires participants’ total dedication and intellectual commitment.

The program’s learning process assists participants to develop knowledge, skills and capabilities in using and managing shared and interoperable standards for legislative document enabling access, communication, processing, modelling, representing and integration of legislation through IT technologies, in an open and cooperative framework.

Teaching Objectives
Good management of legal documents involves at least six aspects:
- Drafting methods, to improve the language and structure of legislative texts;
- Legal XML standards, to improve the accessibility and interoperability of legal resources;
- Legal ontologies, to capture legal metadata and legal semantics;
- Legal Knowledge extraction using natural language techniques;
- Formal representation of legal contents, to support legal reasoning and argumentation;
- Workflow models, to cope with the lifecycle of legal documents.

The summer school will address all of these aspects, through multi- and interdisciplinary competences. It will provide and integrated approach to the management of legal documentation, as a core aspect of legislative and administrative innovation.

Target Group
We seek applicants who are interested in legal drafting and electronic management of legal resources and who plan to work in this area in the public administration, private sector or research fields.
LEX is designed primarily for officers of legislative bodies and other normative authorities (at international, national, regional and local levels), but it addresses also to drafters of normative texts in the private sector, editors, publishers, documentalists dealing with legal sources, experts in the electronic management of legal texts, students and researchers working in legal informatics and legislation studies.

Registration and fee
Basic course: 2 days - 150 euros (students)
Advanced Course: 4 days - 200 euros (students)
Basic + Advanced: 300 euros (students)

Registration Deadlines
- Early bird registration: end of June 2011.
- Scholarship request: end of June 2011.
- After the end of June 2011: overhead of 50 euro.

3 scholarships for students will be available, covering the full course registration fee 300 euro (travel and accommodation not included).
3 scholarships for students will be available, covering only the Basic or Advanced course registration fee 150 euro (travel and accommodation not included).

For further information, visit Summer School's website here