Akoma Ntoso

Assessment

• Open License No

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  The standard is designed to be general and applicable to all governments with parliamentary, legislative, and judiciary procedures

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  Technical committee headed by a legal studies professor and computer science professor from University of Bologna, as well as an employee of the Uruguayan parliament

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  Akoma Ntoso working group exists on Google Groups. Guidelines for contributions are also specified in the GitHub Repository

• Extensions Yes

  Akoma Ntoso website has a page on How to customize Akoma Ntoso

• Human Readable No

  Sections of text normally expressed as paragraphs are split up by line in the XML. Legal docs are visually better represented as PDFs

• Machine Readable Yes

  XML schema

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data Yes

  Akoma Ntoso items are static, referring to a document or legislative proceeding

• Metadata Yes

  All Akoma Ntoso items are mapped to specific Dublin Core or FOAF properties