https://github.com/musale/akn-primer

Introduction to Akoma Ntoso XML schema
https://github.com/musale/akn-primer

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Introduction to Akoma Ntoso XML schema

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/musale/akn-primer
• Owner: musale
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-09-03T09:51:05.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-09-10T07:53:04.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-05T10:45:00.575Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: akn, akoma-ntoso
• Language: Python
• Size: 42 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
This is a simple introduction to [Akoma Ntoso](http://www.akomantoso.org/) with preference to Acts.

# Introduction

[Akoma Ntoso](http://www.akomantoso.org/?page_id=25) (_AkN_) is an international technical standard for representing executive, legislative and judiciary documents in a structured manner. The documents are in different formats i.e. html, xml, pdfs e.t.c; but with AkN, they are transformed into a standard format which can be stored and consumed by different applications.

> **A**rchitecture for **K**nowledge-**O**riented **M**anagement of **A**frican **N**ormative **T**exts using **O**pen **S**tandards and **O**ntologies ([Akoma Ntoso](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso))

## Purpose of Akoma Ntoso

* Create a common document format. Parliament documents, judiciary document etc to end up with a common, understable format.

* Model documents for easy exchange especially between software tools for generation of documents. This ensures common features of documents can be easily transformed.

* Have a schema for document data. This makes it easy to have characteristics of a document easily differentiated. i.e. an Act from a debate document.

* Generation of metadata for documents to enable management of documents i.e. version changes.

* Come up with a mechanism for citation and cross-referencing documents. i.e. a bill mentioned in a debate.