Akoma Ntoso
The OASIS standard for representing parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents in XML, and the format that gives the essay its title.
Standard · 2018Sources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
OASIS title, adoption date and document-modelling capabilities.
- OASIS: Akoma Ntoso Version 1.0, Part 1: XML Vocabulary
Standard title, 29 August 2018 adoption, structured documents, identifiers and references.
- Wikidata entity API: Akoma Ntoso
Inspected entity label and description for identifier matching only; does not validate the work’s argument.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Schema capabilities do not guarantee complete amendment histories or working links in every implementation. The essay’s claim about replacing documents is an interpretation.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
An XML vocabulary for legislation, judgments and parliamentary records. It supports identifiers for document components, references and representations of modifications. These are modelling capabilities, not a guarantee that any implementation records every amendment or resolves every citation.
The specification describes a document-centric approach. The essay’s proposal to move beyond the document as the unit of law is its own architectural interpretation, rather than a claim made by the standard.
In the essays
- For the Love of Law
Read the essay
Projects
- Codify
Implemented by
- legislation.gov.uk
Implemented by
Ideas
- Codification
Subject
- Interoperability
- Machine-readable law
Subject
Organisations
- OASIS Open
Publisher
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/works/akoma-ntoso.md
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