Akoma Ntoso in the EU Parliament Amendment Process

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1 DG ITEC Innovation and Technological Support Akoma Ntoso in the EU Parliament Amendment Process Towards structured content for parliamentary texts management: the e-parliament program First International Akoma Ntoso Conference August 1st 2015 Gianluigi ALARI Program manager CONCEPT Unit, PROJECTS Project Management Service

2 program in a slide Modernise European Parliament's core parliamentary information systems parliamentary text production, verification and translation processes information management and provision obsolescence of applications 2

3 Why the amending process first Amendments are the core business of the European Parliament Amendment drafting in MS Word was particularly complex and error prone Amendment legal & linguistic verification and translation was even more cumbersome Amendment content and metadata were not directly exploitable out of the document context they appeared in 3

4 Amendment process «As-Was» DocEP DocEP DocEP DocEP 4

5 A simple «two column» amendment 5

6 The beauty (and complexity) of cultural diversity 6

7 Benefit Map and Operational Enablers Unique Repository Reusable Services Digital Signature 7

8 Amendment services and business stack 8

9 Amendments in dddddd DiSP 9

10 Integrated solution for Amendments Highly technical complex solution, requiring strong collaboration between many departments First end-to-end parliamentary text production process using service based architecture, enabling a new paradigm for texts production Drafting, verification and translation of amendment documents in production since April 2015 Amendments for Plenary planned for 1H

11 Business value delivered Streamlined drafting-verification-translation cycle Faster and more accurate amendments drafting (MEPs, assistants, Committee secretariats) More efficient amendments verification (lawyer linguists) Better management of multilingual content (translators) Improved quality of amendments presentation Provisioning of structured amendments Technical and functional program architecture validation 11

12 Value unlocked Reports creation, verification and translation (AT4LEX) Plenary Verbatim Report (e-cre) Support to text consolidation Own Initiative and TA/TC European Parliament Rules of Procedures Plenary Minutes Written Declarations Parliamentary Questions (Commission collaboration) Support to Trilogues (Council collaboration) Akoma Ntoso as candidate for interinstitutional XML exchange format (Commission, Council, OP, other IFC participants) 12

13 Thank you Gianluigi ALARI Program manager CONCEPT Unit, PROJECTS Project Management Service SCH 06A03 / gianluigi.alari@europarl.europa.eu

14 Enablers: XML Adoption Selected Akoma Ntoso standard, designed for legislative texts Participation to Oasis LegalDocML TC Defined xml4ep rules for Akoma Ntoso adoption xml4ep ver (Amendments & List) xml4ep ver candidate Reports & Opinions, Final & Draft (at4lex) COM proposal documents (EC & EDIT/DPU) xml4ep-lib: two layers java xml4ep library 14

15 Enablers: pure-xml Unique Repository Parliamentary Unique Repository for XML content Full-text search & extensible metadata Content versioning and lifecycle support Client API and event architecture Smart labels & tags Only for text production 15

16 Enablers: dm-xml document models for XML Validation against xml4ep schema Instantiation of XML skeletons Legislative Procedure metadata integration Language pre-fill of standard text (terms) Rendering in PDF, Word, DocEP, HTML, 16

17 Enablers: EPS Services Content storage abstraction layer Application and information integration Automatic document transformation (via dm-xml) 17

18 Enablers: Digital Signature Services - DSS Support PIN, smart-card, Basic services User authentication(different modes) Signature request (CUD) Verify signature in document Add signature Certificate management Time stamp RCL Advanced services Group signature Barcodes & Barcodes check Electronic signature (image) 18

19 Digital Signature Portal: DiSP DiSP: Digital Signature Portal In production since late 2012 for committee amendments (for six parliamentary committees) Built on DSS to ease integration (MEP Portal, GEDA, ) Signed more than 2000 amendments 19

20 Editor for amendments: at4am at4am: authoring tool for amendments Covers legislative and non-legislative amendments In production since 2011, more than 400k amendments 20

21 Editor for reports and opinions: at4lex at4lex: authoring tool for legislative texts Requirements are gathered and analysis is ongoing Successful technical proof of concept A working prototype is developed and being refined 21

22 Collaborative amendment drafting: DST DST: Drafting Support Tool Verification by DG Presidency of amendments created in at4am, in production on selected dossiers since April 2012 Collaboration with Members for drafting amendments, in production on selected dossiers since September

23 Computer assisted translation: cat4trad cat4trad: XML based Translation Tool Translation of Committees Agendas, in production since April 2012 Translation of amendments created in at4am and verified in DST is available since April 2015 Feasibility study to open cat4trad to external translators 23