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The purpose of this GitHub repository is to develop and distribute good examples in order to share knowledge about the correct application of LegalRuleML standard. The objective of the LegalRuleML TC is to extend RuleML with formal features specific to legal norms, guidelines, policies, and reasoning. The TC defines a standard (expressed with W3C XML-schema and Relax NG) that is able to represent the particularities of the legal normative rules with a rich, articulated, and meaningful markup language.
LegalRuleML should be used for as an intermediate language between norms/textual provisions and logical implementations of the norms/textual provisions. Ideally, a LegalRuleML serialisation of norms/textual provisions should be conceptual, in the sense that the representation is neutral (see examples at
this link) and independent of any particular logic formalism or system for legal reasoning or implementation instructions. However, it is possible to write conformant LegalRuleML that is specific to a particular Logic.
The use cases below provide examples of conformant serialisation.
- Use Case #1: The use case serialises GDPR, artt. 5(1)(a), 6(1)(a), 8(1), 12(7), using reified Input/Output logic [Robaldo and Sun, 2017].
- Use Case #2: The use case serialises...
- Use Case #3: The use case serialises...
- Etc.
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