Book contents
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- A Information Representation, Preprocessing, and Document Assembly
- 2.1 Representation of Legal Information
- 2.2 Information Intermediation
- 2.3 Preprocessing Data
- 2.4 XML in Law
- 2.5 Document Automation
- B. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Blockchain
- C. Process Improvement, Gamification, and Design Thinking
- D. Evaluation
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
2.4 - XML in Law
The Role of Standards in Legal Informatics
from A - Information Representation, Preprocessing, and Document Assembly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- A Information Representation, Preprocessing, and Document Assembly
- 2.1 Representation of Legal Information
- 2.2 Information Intermediation
- 2.3 Preprocessing Data
- 2.4 XML in Law
- 2.5 Document Automation
- B. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Blockchain
- C. Process Improvement, Gamification, and Design Thinking
- D. Evaluation
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
Summary
Somewhere between sonnets and Beat literature lies the notion of the semi-structured document, in which some type of, if not formalized, than perhaps anticipated, or at least understandable, textual layout, sectioning, and various forms of visual and labeled elements assist the reader in deciphering the document’s meaning. In fact, had the publisher been able to accommodate it, Faulkner had hoped to publish his masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury, in various colored text, each color denoting a different period of time, in order to assist the reader in making sense of what might otherwise be viewed as incoherent ramblings coming through his severely mentally disabled character’s narrative.2 And such is the current fate and ongoing dilemma facing a legal system that has historically been centered on the static, written document, collecting dust if lucky enough to be on a shelf, rather than buried in a random box under a desk in a remote office, yet all the while holding forth the rules and consequences of not abiding its every word and punctuation mark, scribbler’s errors included. This is the glue that holds society together.
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- Legal Informatics , pp. 61 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021