Palmirani: Akoma Ntoso Implementations

Here is a list of implementations of Akoma Ntoso, the XML-based structural metadata standard for legal documents, and the Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention, a legal identifier standard. The list was compiled by Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani , co-developer of Akoma Ntoso, who kindly allowed me to re-post the list here:

The Akoma Ntoso naming convention (based on FRBR) usually is adopted jointly with Akoma Ntoso legal xml standard.

[...] Akoma Ntoso, and related URI naming convention, are officially adopted by the following institutional bodies:

• EU Parliament uses Akoma Ntoso for modelling amendments, amendment list, bills, proposals, consolidated version of those documents. EU Parliament manages 24 languages. Status: operative;


• LexML Brazil Project of the Senate. They are using a customization of Akoma Ntoso for the document management and URN:LEX as naming convention. Status: operative;


• Senate of Italy uses Akoma Ntoso for publishing bills in open data. Status: operative [see our earlier post;


• Library Congress of Chile uses Akoma Ntoso for managing debates and recently also bills and acts. Status: operative [see Grant Vergottini and Ari Hershowitz’s post about this at VoxPopuLII ;


• Uruguay Parliament will use Akoma Ntoso for modelling all the law-making process of the bills. Status: it officially adopted Akoma Ntoso for the document management. The project is under construction;


• Federal Chancellery of Switzerland will use Akoma Ntoso for the publication of bills, acts, consolidated code in the Official Journals. Status: it officially adopted Akoma Ntoso for the document management. The project is under construction;


• European Commission. Status: there is the intention to adopt Akoma Ntoso for the document management in order to favour the interoperability with EU Parliament. The project is under construction;


• Nicaragua Assembly will use Akoma Ntoso for managing all the life-cycle of the law-making system. Status: it officially adopted Akoma Ntoso for the document management. The project is under construction;


• Hong Kong Ministry of Justice. Status: the project is under construction and the project manager (Grant Vergottini) is using Akoma Ntoso.


• some relevant experiences in US (California, US code) as back-office document standard. Status: the project is under construction and the project manager (Grant Vergottini) is using Akoma Ntoso;


• Kenya Law Report uses light-dialect of Akoma Ntoso for managing internal document management system. Status: it officially adopted a light version inspired to Akoma Ntoso for the document management. The project is under construction.

Additionally we have some other initiatives that are using Akoma Ntoso (or a dialect inspired to Akoma Ntoso):

• SayIt, by >mySociety


• M5SLazioDevelopment (a customization of liquidfeedback where the document format is Akoma Ntoso)

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