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Forwarded message: > From: Erik Josefsson <[email protected]> > Reply To: iindep info exchange hub <[email protected]> > To: iindep info exchange hub <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 11 May 2012 16:40:43 > Subject: [iindep-hub] "European Parliament to share amendment web tool > as open source" > > Congrats to all of us!! > > Link: > https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/european-parliament-share-amendment-web-tool-open-source > > Piggyback link: http://epfsug.eu/become-a-member-or-a-supporter > > //Erik > > > European Parliament to share amendment web tool as open source > > *The IT department of the European Parliament will next year make > available as open source At4am, software that helps staff at the EP > write amendments. The tool could be useful for many other parliaments > and other public bodies that create legislative texts. The United > Nations and the parliaments in Denmark and in the United Kingdom have > expressed interest in the software.* > > "Processes for drafting legal texts differ from parliament to > parliament. We hope that by sharing our software, we can at least > inspire other legislative bodies", says Claudio Fabiani, Project Manager > at DG ITEC, the Directorate General of the European Parliament, and > involved in the development of At4am. > > The decision to make At4am (Automatic Tool for AMendments) open source > was taken in recent months. It was briefly mentioned last week Thursday > during a workshop in the EP on the use of XML for drafting legislation. > > The At4am web editing tool was first made available to the EP staff in > early 2010. It can only be accessed by users logged in to the EP's Intranet. > > *Any browser* > The web editor can be used in any web browser. EP staff write amendments > by creating files in an XML format which is designed especially for > parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents. That XML schema, > called Akoma Ntoso, is currently under consideration for standardisation > at OASIS. > > The software saves the EP staff time by automatically applying the rules > for drafting such amendments. When opening a text, At4am shows which > paragraphs can be changed and presents the user with editing > information. This information is stored as metadata for the amendment. > > All amendments are saved in the At4am database as content, rendering > codes and metadata. They can be exported either in the Akoma Ntoso XML > schema or saved as a binary electronic document. > > The application itself is available in the three working languages of > EP, English, French and German. All documents to amend however are > instantly accessible in any of the official languages of the EU. > > *Licence combination* > The IT department at the EP has not yet decided which open source > licence it will use. "Maybe we will use the EU's open source licence, > the EUPL, but we might also pick another one, or make a combination", > says Fabiani. > > The software developers also have not yet settled where they will > publish the source code. The EC's Joinup software repository is one > option, Fabiani says. "Though maybe we will settle for Google's software > forge, or both. We just started thinking about all of this." > > The open source version will not be exactly the same as the software > used in the EP, explains Fabiani. "It has some functions that are unique > to the EP. To make sure it can be implemented by or is useful for other > parliaments, we will first have to untangle some of the legislative > context and services." > > *More information:* > International workshop: Identifying benefits deriving from the adoption > of XML-based chains for drafting legislation > <http://www.ictparliament.org/xmltraining_brussels2012> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > iindep info hub - [email protected] - https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/hub > policy: * do NOT forward mails or non-public information from this list > * new subscribers must be approved by a list member > * messages from non-members addresses are bounced back > list admin is Nil (mailto:[email protected], he rarely reads the list) > > >
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