Model-Driven Development of Akoma Ntoso Application Profiles: A Conceptual Framework for Model-Based Generation of XML Subschemas

This book presents a model-driven approach for creating a national application profile of the international legislative document standard Akoma Ntoso (AKN). It ensures consistent and error-proof application of AKN concepts and types, allows for easy maintenance, self-documenting, and facilitates stakeholder validation with nontechnical legal experts. The approach is paradigmatically applied to the German federal legislative process, yielding a model, schema, and specification that correspond to the artefacts created by LegalDocML.de. It is of interest to legal and technical project teams on the cusp of introducing AKN and can serve as a practical guide for teams preparing to create a custom application profile.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 47 pages
Publication date: 02 January 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book presents a comprehensive and model-driven approach for developing a national application profile of the international legislative document standard Akoma Ntoso (AKN). AKN, an XML-based document standard, serves as the foundation for modern, machine-readable, and fully digital legislative and judicial processes. The described development approach ensures consistent and error-free application of AKN concepts and types, even when using different software tools. It promotes easy maintenance, self-documentation, and facilitates stakeholder validation with nontechnical legal experts. The resulting application profile remains fully compliant with and compatible with AKN.

To illustrate the practicality of the approach, we demonstrate its application to the German federal legislative process. A corresponding methodology was used in creating the German AKN application profile, LegalDocML.de. Through examples from Germany, we showcase how the methodology generates a model, schema definition, and specification that align with the artefacts developed by LegalDocML.de.

This book is of significant interest to legal and technical project teams embarking on the implementation of AKN in a legislative domain. It serves as a practical guide.guide for teams preparing to create a custom application profile tailored to their specific domain. Furthermore, it can serve as a valuable resource and inspiration for similar methodologies in other public sectors, such as the health sector or defense, where international standardization and interoperability efforts are aimed at a local level.

Weight: 120g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031141317
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022