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Track: Case Studies, Government, Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical view
Time: Wednesday, November 16 14:45
Keywords: Conference, Documentation, DocBook, Authoring, Schema
Abstract:
An important part (indeed the core) of the business of legislatures or parliaments is drafting, scrutinising, and changing legislation.
This case study relates to the field of collaborative editing and revision of complex legislative documents — specifically a method to allow multiple authors, working independently and in parallel to amend bills and automatically merge changes made by many authors to different copies of the bill back into a single version.
The application described in the study is known as The Parliamentary Workbench (PWB). PWB from Propylon Inc is an XML-based legislative solution suite. This study focuses on the Bill Drafting, Amendment and Engrossment modules within the PWB and outlines how the solution can be used to address many of the requirements of collaborative editing and revision.
Copyright: © 2005 Propylon Inc
