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WORKSHOP
• NiR and the NiR editor,
• discussion of editorial tools,
• presentation of the Dutch legal information system and the consolidation
approach,
• metadata.
the third meeting, in march 2006, took into account the following items:
• report on the Copenhagen meeting of the forum,
• presentation and discussion of the working plan for 2006,
• continuation of work on the metadata vocabulary,
• discussion of a namespace or inclusion-based approach for the integration
of the metadata speciications in local applications,
• presentation of the Eurovoc thesaurus,
• reports on metadata indexation in the various countries.
the fourth meeting, in June 2006, was supposed to be the last one, and
had the following items on the agenda:
• report on news from the forum,
• reports on news from the various countries,
• presentation of the N-Lex system, which could possibly proit from the
deinition of common metadata,
• presentation of the current status of the metadata vocabulary,
• discussion of outstanding issues on the metadata vocabulary, deinition of
cardinality of elements, naming conventions, versioning,
• presentation and discussion of a draft table of contents for the inal report.
In the last meeting it was also proposed to develop a prototype system
which should illustrate the beneits of the use of a common metadata vocabulary.
2.2. Subjects
As previously stated, one of the common problems concerned the availability
of tools which offer good interfaces between the human operators and
the XmL instances. As most of the human operators are not experts in XmL
issues, but specialists in drafting legislation, it is obvious that they should not
be confronted with XmL markup. the different presentations, as well as the
experiences of users, showed that no system can cover all needs. In most cases
editing tools will have to be conigured for local needs, or speciic applications
will have to be developed.
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