Semantic Resources for Managing Legislative Information

The new frontier of the Semantic Web is moving more and more away from information searching of the substantial aspects of documents requiring the availability of advanced editing tools able to handle and manage not only the text but also the semantics of documents. The structuring of legal text in XML offers the opportunity to render legislation not only machine-processable but also machine-understandable, enabling legislative text and its contents to be semantically annotated and conceptually identified by means of semantic mark-up. Starting from this assumption, this chapter is devoted to the analysis of the state of the art of the semantic resources that can be used by information technology as tools for overcoming issues linked with the semantic management of legislative texts.