Legal Software: Call for Participation: OASIS Legal Citation Markup (LegalCiteM) Technical Committee

A call for participation has been issued for the OASIS Legal Citation Markup (LegalCiteM) Technical Committee , whose purpose is to “develop an open standard for machine-readable tagging of legal citations.”

The scope of the committee’s work is described in the call as follows:

The LegalCiteM TC will develop an open standard for machine-readable tagging of legal citations. Specifically, the standard will provide a conceptual model, vocabulary, metadata definitions and syntactical structure that:

Enables cites to be richly tagged while leaving the visible text of the citation undisturbed;

Works for a broad variety of legal content types including court cases, legislation, regulations, parliamentary documents and legal treatises;

Supports citations as used in different countries and jurisdictions;

Allows other metadata to be associated with citations for purposes beyond just linking.

The TC will also define use cases, overviews, sample data sets and such other non-normative content as can help guide implementers and users to develop and adopt the standard.

According to the call, those formally proposing the committee are: