Akoma Ntoso for Making FAO Resolutions Accessible

Akoma Ntoso is an international legal XML standard, whose technical specifications are now approved by the OASIS body. The standard has been developed to model legislative, parliamentary, and judicial documents using Semantic Web design principles. However, other types of normative and regulatory documents can benefit from being represented in Akoma Ntoso, making it possible to formally describe their structure, their components (e.g., attachments), their references to and from other documents, the semantic annotation of some peculiar parts of regulatory language (e.g., actions, purposes), the workflow of the creation process, and modifications over time. This Chapter presents a legal analysis of FAO Resolutions and how to apply Akoma Ntoso to interoperate with other UN documents (e.g., resolutions of the UN General Assembly). We also present the identifier naming convention for managing multilingual interconnection between documents (e.g., the UN manages six official languages). Finally, we present the ALLOT ontology application for improving semantic annotation in light of Linked Open Data. The combination of Akoma Ntoso and the ALLOT ontology makes it possible to enhance searching capacity and presentation accessibility.