1	XML for Legislatures: A Case Study on the Automation of Law http://XMLPlanning.com/XDNCD
2	XML Planning Group… A consortium of existing organizations Technology and product neutral Focused on the intelligence stored in data Experienced in legislative document and process environments Ohio Minnesota Idaho General consulting and education in a variety of State and Federal agencies California Colorado New York Ohio Supreme Court Texas
3	Our perspective Real world XML solutions “immortalize” the intelligence in data We believe that real world solutions only work when the client IT community is involved the end user is involved change is managed effectively expectations are managed We are committed to education and knowledge transfer
4	Consulting to States
5	XML de-mystified… XML is A family of international standards at the heart & soul of all new technological developments A meta-language for identifying and marking structured data Based on tags delimiting elements and attributes (similar to HTML) Verbose, but that’s OK Both machine readable and human intelligible
6	Legislative Data
7	MN - XTEND Summary XML-Based Text Editor New Development 70 users in Legislature Phase I: Legislative Documents Senate Documents Doc Repositories Search capabilities Security Model
8	What should a new solution do? Streamline the processes of authoring, manipulation and publication Provide a series of applications that meet the users’ needs while providing each user access to a central set of structured data Facilitate enhancements and ongoing process changes with minimal impact on the core functionality
9	What should a new solution do? Mitigate the risks associated with the use of proprietary technologies and products Promote the adoption of open industry standards Allow the legislative IT community to perform its primary function – support of the legislative process – with a minimum of the traditional IT headaches
10	Project Timeline
11	Programmer’s Work Area
12	Technology – Inventory Hardware HP Proliant DL380 G3 Intel Xeon 2.80 GHz 2GB RAM 2 x 36 HDD HP EVA3000 (SAN) 550 GB now > 1TB total capacity Operating System MS Windows 2003 Server Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.0
13	Technology – Inventory (cont.) Commercial Apps Arbortext Epic • E3 Styler • Architect Print Composer Oracle 10g JDeveloper App Server Database with RAC Open Source CVS, Ant, CruiseControl Sparx Enterprise Architect Elementool Custom Apps in Sun J2EE Arbortext ACL Perl PHP
14	Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Corner-stone design principle in XTEND Simple (and compelling) business drivers: Reduce costs by adopting standards-based software built on commodity hardware, widely-supported development languages, and operating systems Increase business responsiveness, preserve high-quality performance, and ensure reliability by focusing software development and integration on re-usable services rather than redevelopment efforts
15	XTEND – Logical Architecture
16	XTEND – Physical Architecture
17	3 Environments
18	Modular Legislative Schemata <!ENTITY % statute_structure SYSTEM "statute_structure.dtd“ > %statute_structure; <!ENTITY % volume_info SYSTEM "volume_info.dtd" > %volume_info; <!ENTITY % volume_analysis SYSTEM "volume_analysis.dtd" > %volume_analysis; <!ENTITY % title_info SYSTEM "title_info.dtd" > %title_info; <!ENTITY % title_analysis SYSTEM "title_analysis.dtd" > %title_analysis; <!ENTITY % part_info SYSTEM "part_info.dtd" > %part_info; <!ENTITY % part_analysis SYSTEM "part_analysis.dtd" > %part_analysis; <!ENTITY % chapter_info SYSTEM "chapter_info.dtd" > %chapter_info; <!ENTITY % chapter_analysis SYSTEM "chapter_analysis.dtd" > %chapter_analysis; <!ENTITY % stat_sect_text SYSTEM "stat_sect_text.dtd" > %stat_sect_text; <!ENTITY % stat_sect_hist SYSTEM "stat_sect_hist.dtd" > %stat_sect_hist; <!ENTITY % table_structure SYSTEM "table_module.dtd" > %table_structure; <!ENTITY % common_vocab SYSTEM "common_vocab.dtd" > %common_vocab;
19	Complex Legislative Processing The legal requirements for immortalized line numbers add complexities to legislative documents Not typically supported by products out of the box
20	Arbortext for Bill Drafting in MN Epic XML editor Enterprise E-Content Engine (E3) Arbortext Architect Arbortext Styler Arbortext Repository Adapter for Oracle Goals for the use of Epic Suite: Improve authoring productivity and time-to-publication Provide legacy “look-alike” capabilities where desired Ensure tight and seamless integration with other parts of the technology stack Facilitate “touch once, use often” data modularity Standardize all published versions of documents (print, Web, local online, PDF, etc.)
21	XML Curriculum
22	Web Development
23	Java Curriculum
24	.NET Curriculum