Specification of the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format: Deliverable 1.1

The main technical objectives of work package 1 are to develop
a first version of a Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF),
building upon emerging XML-based standards of the Semantic
Web, including RDF and OWL, and Application Program Interfaces
(APIs) for interacting with legal knowledge systems. The
LKIF will apply the state of the art in the field of Artificial Intelligence
and Law, taking into account business and application
requirements. This deliverable reports on the specification of syntax
and semantics of the LKIF language, and should be read in
conjunction with deliverable D1.4 on the LKIF ontologies. The
proposed LKIF adds a terminology for deontic statements, and a
special LKIF rule language to existing fragments of OWL and the
rule language SWRL.