1. R. Winkels An Interchange Format for Legal Documents Radboud Winkels Leibniz Center for Law University of Amsterdam

2. MetaLex Summary META Lex is An open interchange standard proposal A minimal provision for tagging regulations Extensible for any conceivable purpose Jurisdiction-independent Language-independent Compliant with the newest W3C standards and proposals Partly developed within E-POWER project (IST 2000-28125) V1.0 September 2002; now v1.1

3. Latest Developments Automatic generation of amendement law based on editing MetaLex legislation Automatic detection of references in and between (MetaLex) legal sources

4. References Legislation Decisions on Law Case Law Legal Doctrine

5. Automatic parsing 1. Determine identity of source document  In doc: Title, citation title  In metadata 2. Parse document Natural language – model sentences 3. Find references 4. Determine type  E.g. attribution and delegation of competences; definitions; enactment; amendement 5. Determine identity target  I.e. the thing referred to

6. Reference finding MetaLex doc. Identify Model Parse RefType

7. Future plans XML for all official publications Automatic recognition of missing data, e.g. competence (power) Full legal document management system