How Do We Do It
Conversion
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Key Task
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Convert material to be used for linking into XML
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Wide variety of material -- case law, seminars, books, etc.
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Standards
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Need "standard" XML
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Non-profits already defining for many materials
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Three DTD's for case law to be combined into one standard DTD
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Work on DTD for on line seminars
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Some of LegalXML's standards work applicable to other materials
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Non-profit consortium will work to provide governments, others with standard
way to do things
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Need to convert multiple formats to standard XML
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Approaches differ depending on material
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Most common approach-- use native app to save in as close to standard HTML/XML
as possible
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Use scripts to clean up and standardize HTML (e.g. TIDY cleans up Word2000)
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Then run scripts (parsers) on HTML to add XML, links
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Minimize manual intervention
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AustLII and Cornell scripts very close to what we need for much of our
material
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AustLII willing to work to modify scripts for us