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1 Introduction

1.0 IPR Policy​

This specification is provided under the RF on Limited Terms Mode of the OASIS IPR Policy, the mode chosen when the Technical Committee was established.

For information on whether any patents have been disclosed that may be essential to implementing this specification, and any offers of patent licensing terms, please refer to the Intellectual Property Rights section of the TC’s web page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legaldocml/ipr.php)).

1.1 Terminology​

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

1.2 Normative References​

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels”, BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt. [IRI] International Resource Identifiers as per RFC 3987

(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987)).

[ISO3166-1:2013] Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 1: Country codes (https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search/code/)).

[ISO639-2:1998] Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 2: Alpha-3 code http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber= 4767

[XML-SCHEMA-0] XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition , D. C. Fallside, P. Walmsley, Editors, W3C Recommendation, 28 October 2004, http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-0-20041028/ . Latest version available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/

1.3 Non-Normative References​

[RDF] Resource Description Framework (http://www.w3.org/RDF/)). [FRBR] Functional requirements for bibliographic records: final report / IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. — München: K.G. Saur, 1998. — viii, 136 p. — (UBCIM publications; new series, vol. 19). — ISBN 978-3-598-11382-6. http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf.

[AkomaNtosoNaming-v1.0] Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention Version 1.0. Edited by Fabio Vitali, Monica Palmirani, and Véronique Parisse. 06 June 2017. OASIS Committee Specification 01. http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/cs01/akn-nc-v1.0-cs01.html. Latest version: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-nc/v1.0/akn-nc-v1.0.html.

1.4 Status​

The present document provides a presentation of the main motivations, design principles, and the benefits of using Akoma Ntoso vocabulary and approach. The document is non-normative material and it is thought for presenting the main pillars of Akoma Ntoso to the stakeholders who need to take decisions about how to manage the legal sources in a digital manner in a Semantic Web society.