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Labels: #gaggle, ANU, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, e-Learning, Education Revolution, gaggle
Labels: #gaggle, ANU, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, e-Learning, Education Revolution, gaggle
This document defines the LegalXML Electronic Court Filing 4.0 (ECF 4.0) specification, which consists of a set of non-proprietary XML and Web services specifications, along with clarifying explanations and amendments to those specifications, that have been added for the purpose of promoting interoperability among electronic court filing vendors and systems. ECF Version 4.0 is a major release and brings the specification into conformance with the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) 2.0.
CoreFilingMessage
xsd/message/ECF-4.0-CoreFilingMessage.xsd
CivilCase
xsd/casetype/ECF-4.0-CivilCase.xsd
Calendar date values should be expressed as “CCYY-MM-DD”, with an optional time zone qualifier designated by appending -hh:00, where hh represent the number of hours the local time zone is behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Time values should be expressed as “hh:mm:ss.sss”, with an optional time zone qualifier designated by appending -hh:00, where hh represent the number of hours the local time zone is behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
There is also a useful diagram describing the "Filing Preparation to Docketing Process Model".
Labels: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, e-documents, ediscovery, Electronic Records Management, Federal Court of Australia, OASIS
Some of what I found along the way:The Federal Court of Australia is working out how lawyers can exchange information about some of the large number of electronic documents now used in court cases (called "e-Discovery"). But being lawyers, they have used a lot of words to describe what is an information processing system. This will make for a lot of work for the people who have to implement it and leave room for incompatibility between systems used by different law firms.
Don't try and read it in detail, but quickly look at: "Advanced Document Management Protocol (Example)", Federal Court of Australia, Revision 0.18, 30 June 2008:
- What are some of the problems with the metadata and document format specifications of this system?
- How would you improve the speculation?
- What standards would you suggest the court specify for particular metadata elements and document formats? Give some examples.
If you don't know where to start, look though some of the standards mentioned in the lecture notes.
The spreadsheet columns required for Document Descriptions is as follows:Advanced:
(a) Document ID;
(b) Document Title;
(c) Document Type;
(d) Document Date;
(e) Author;
(f) Recipient;
(g) Host Document ID; and
(h) Folder and Filename.
Table Name Table Description Export Main Document information Parties People and organisation information for each Document Pages Listing of electronic image filenames for each Document Export_Extras Additional data fields for each Document
One point to note from this is that dates are not specified in ISO date format.
Field Data Type Explanation – Document Types and Coding Method and possible values Document_ID Text, 255 Document ID in accordance with Schedule 1.
Document_TypeText, 255 ... Document_Date Date, 11 DD-MMM-YYYY
Labels: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, e-documents, ediscovery, Electronic Records Management, Federal Court of Australia
Time | Speaker | Title |
---|---|---|
0830 -0900 | Registration | |
0900-0910 | Welcome | |
0910-0940 | Location Based Services and issues such as Privacy | |
0940-1025 | You Are Where You've Been. Location Technologies' Deep Privacy Impact | |
1025-1100 | Morning Tea | |
1100-1215 | Session II: Legal/Policy Issues | |
1100-1125 | Location Privacy : Privacy regulator's perspective | |
1125- 1150 | Hic et nunc: Provision of location based services to law enforcement agencies | |
1150-1215 | Australian Telecom Law, its current interpretation of location information, and the future | |
1220 | Group photo of speakers: | |
1220-0120 | Lunch | |
0120-0300 | Session III: Technology Issue | |
0120-0145 | Location Privacy: Telstra's Perspective | |
0145-0210 | Practicalities of delivering LBS and policy/privacy issues | |
0210-0235 | Google Street View | |
0235-0300 | Obfuscation: Location privacy protection through spatial information hiding | |
0300-0330 | Afternoon Tea | |
Session IV: Social Issues: 0330-0430 | ||
0330-0355 | Geoidentification - " A serious threat to your location privacy on the Internet? | |
0355-0420 | A research note on ethics in the emerging age of Ãœberveillance | |
0420-0445 | Privacy-aware telematics technologies - GPS enabled insurance and social issues | |
0445-0530 | Panel Session | |
0530 | Seminar Concludes |
Labels: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, GPS, Privacy
Labels: Australian Government, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, IT Industry Policy, law
Labels: Australian Government, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, IT Industry Policy, law
"Aspects of eGovernment in Germany, Hong Kong and Australia: Domain
names, privacy and more"
Speaker: Joeson Wong and Martin Backes
Date: Wednesday 6 Feb 2008
Time: 10-12 am
Venue: Theatre G23, ground floor, new Law Building, UNSW lower campus
URL: http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/2008/talks/seminar_egov.htm
This is a presentation of work in progress in relation to a number of
aspects of eGovernment, particularly domain names and privacy, as it
affects countries such as Germany, Hong Kong and Australia. Two
leading international postgraduate researchers, visiting from their
own countries, will present their current thinking on the specific
topics they have been most recently focused on, and a number of other
experts will join in the discussion to situate these developments in
the broader evolution of e-government and e-governance.
Joeson Wong and Martin Backes are postgraduate researchers at UNSW's
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, focusing on Hong Kong and Germany
respectively.
Entry is free. Coming from off Campus? If possible please RSVP to
feedback@cyberlawcentre.org.
Regards,
David
David Vaile
Executive Director
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney Australia
T: (02) 9385 3589
F: (02) 9385 1778
M: (0414) 731 249
E: d.vaile@unsw.edu.au
W: http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/
Labels: Australian Government, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, IT Industry Policy, law
On Friday 14 December 2007 the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre hosts a symposium to explore issues raised by the proposed OO XML (Open Office XML) document format standard from Microsoft, to assist consideration of the Australian response to the proposal through Standards Australia. Expert commentators from a range of perspectives will present written and oral summaries of the issues, and there will be detailed discussion of the most significant of these. There is proposed informal participation from Standards Australia and experts associated with them in the discussion.
There are two sessions, Technical and Legal. There will be a preliminary 'Background Paper' on the Legal area, and a list of 'top 10 topics' for the Technical.
We hope to explore the underlying realities of OO XML as well as the more political dialogue, which can often 'muddy the waters.' While there are no doubt passions, commercial interests and well-established positions on many of the issues, we encourage participants to come out from behind their settled opinions and engage in open debate and discussion. Outcomes of the day may include:
- a better appreciation of arguments and explanations surrounding the more significant issues, for those seeking to make further submissions to assist formulation of an Australian response in February 2008; and
- a paper that covers points raised from all sides.
Preliminary OO XML Symposium programme
(comments welcome - subject to change)1. Technical session
The Technical Session will present technical and practical considerations when looking at implementing OOXML. It will include experts in this space, government, user and industry perspectives, and the top technical concerns raised in comments submitted through the ISO process in the last year, both from Australia and New Zealand, and also internationally. There will be time for open discussion, and attendees are welcome to participate fully.
0830 - Breakfast
0900 - Introductory expert commentary
0930 - Expert Commentary 2
1000 - Government and user perspectives
1030 - 20 mins coffee break
1050 - Facilitated discussion - top 10 issues raised from the global comments about OOXML; short position statements from key players?
1250 - Wrap up and thanks
1300 - Finish and Lunch2. Legal Session
The Legal Session will be focussed on the proponent's 'covenant not to sue' (later recast in the form of a promise) in relation to a range of potential litigation topics, particularly intellectual property such as copyrights entitlements; its practical effectiveness as a protection removing the need for a range of implementers to seek further expensive legal risk management advice; and other issues such as patents.
1400 - Expert commentary 1
1430 - Expert commentary2
1500 - Facilitated discussion - covenant not to sue etc.
1540 - 20 mins coffee break
1600 - Facilitated discussion - solutions, other issues?
1650 - Wrap up and thanksContact feedback [at] cyberlawcentre.org to express interest in one or both sessions, and reserve a place.
Labels: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, OOXML
UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre in assocation with the Hon Neil Brown QC, Adjunct Professor of Law at Murdoch University invite you to a free seminar in the 2007 Cyberspace Law and Policy Series:
Topic: WIPO's Internet domain name arbitration process: Can it meet the challenges of the trademark and the cybersquatter?
Speaker: Erik Wilbers, Acting Director of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva.Date: Wednesday 5 December 2007
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm, including time for questions Venue: Room 162, level 1, New Faculty of Law building , UNSW lower campus (near Roundhouse), Kensington, SydneyMap: http://www.unsw.edu.au/maps/kensington.pdf (reference F8)
Abstract:
Trademark owners expect that their trademarks will be protected from what they regard as the unprincipled attempts of others to trade on their good name; others – not only "cybersquatters" in the strict meaning of the word – say that the internet should be free from restrictions.
Is this conflict just a piece of special pleading? How is this conflict resolved? Is the UDRP process adequate to resolve it? These and other questions will be tackled by the man who should know the answers – Erik Wilbers."
About the Speaker:Mr Erik Wilbers is the Acting Director and the Head of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Section of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland. The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center is an international provider of non-profit services for the out-of-court resolution of commercial disputes, in particular those arising out of technology and intellectual property transactions.
At the WIPO Center, Mr. Wilbers oversees the Center’s provision of resources to intellectual property stakeholders to help them achieve time and cost effectiveness in dispute resolution. Reflecting the growing importance of intellectual property, the Center manages an increasing number of arbitration and mediation cases filed by parties from different jurisdictions. The Center’s role ranges from the provision of clause advice to the appointment of appropriate neutrals and the safeguarding of the effiency of the proceedings.
WIPO cases mostly concern contractual disputes (e.g. patent and software licenses, trademark coexistence agreements, distribution agreements for pharmaceutical products and research and development agreements), but also include non-contractual disputes, for example in relation to patent infringement.
Bookings:Entry is free, no need to book.
If you are coming from off campus, please RSVP
UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre and Linux Australia invite you to a free seminar one of the 2007 Cyberspace Law and Policy SeriesTopic: The Democratic Deficit in Copyright Law: A Legislative Proposal
Speaker: Maureen O'Sullivan, Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway
Date: Wednesday 25 July 2007
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm, including time for questions
Venue: Room 101, first floor, Faculty of Law building, UNSW lower campus (near Roundhouse), Kensington, Sydney, Map
Abstract: This talk by visiting international IP researcher Maureen O'Sullivan considers issues in Free/Libre and/or Open Source Software (FLOSS) licensing, particularly as manifest in the recently finalised GPL v3 and their impact on Spanish-speaking or civil code countries, and her proposal for an international standard law to help free software licenses work the same in all users' countries.
About the Speaker: Maureen O'Sullivan is a lecturer in law, based at National University of Ireland, Galway. Maureen's research and teaching interests span intellectual property in the digital age, including FLOSS and Creative Commons licensing, patents and genetically modified organisms, Information Society policy making, especially in Spain and Latin America, and theoretical approaches to intellectual property.
Bookings: Entry is free, no need to book. If you are coming from off campus please RSVP to feedback [at] cyberlawcentre.org.
Labels: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
The Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW provides a focus for research, public interest advocacy and education on issues of law and policy concerning digital transactions in cyberspace. It is a Centre of the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
"Digital evidence: Issues for lawyers, judges and scholars, and what's coming over the horizon... Stephen Mason, Director of the Digital Evidence Research Programme, BritishStephen's work on e-evidence is equally applicable to IT professionals as lawyers. You can download the slides of the presentation and some of his papers from the event announcement.
Institute of International and Comparative Law ... "
This article briefly outlines the case law in relation to manuscript signatures in England and Wales, putting the concept of manuscript signatures into historical perspective from the point of view of the common law. A short outline of the international framework for electronic signatures will follow, and consideration will be given to the three main concepts adopted by politicians in the form of legislation from across the world. The forms of electronic will be set out, and a number of practical and evidential issues will be taken into account. Relevant case law is considered throughout the article.
Dr Alathea Foster is alleged to have attacked Julie Simpson after discovering a series of emails on her husband John Foster's computer. She is also said to have recounted her state of mind in diary entries which were today read out to the court. ...
A woman who stabbed her husband's ex-lover 17 times has been cleared of attempted murder but jailed for causing grievous bodily harm.
Alethea Foster, 61, of Bromley, south London, stabbed Cambridge University student Julie Simpson when she learned of their 15-year affair via e-mails. ...
The e-Signature Law Journal brings news, articles, legal developments and case reports to academics, practitioners and the industry in relation to electronic signatures from across the world. The journal also seeks to include reports on technical advances, book reviews and a calendar of events and conferences.
Labels: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre