Work record
Akoma Ntoso
The OASIS standard for representing parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents in XML, and the format that gives the essay its title.
An XML vocabulary for legislation, judgments and parliamentary records, in which every act, section and subsection is an addressable object, every citation a resolvable reference, and every amendment a recorded transformation.
The essay's argument turns on this being the successor to the codex: not a better document, but the end of the document as the unit of law. The standard is the existence proof that the engineering is available rather than speculative.
The title of the essay comes from the name: Akoma Ntoso is Akan for "linked hearts".
Drawn on by For the Love of Law.
Links to
- cited in
- For the Love of Law
- published by
- OASIS Open
Referenced by
- draws on
- For the Love of Law
- implements
- legislation.gov.uk
- published
- OASIS Open
Source: knowledge/works/akoma-ntoso.md
Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5 on 2026-07-25