Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Calls:Legal-References
This is the approved revision of this page, as well as being the most recent.
馃挕 In simple words: Contracts follow laws. For fair deals, people need the right legal texts easily, from a country's constitution to a trade's rules. This page is a future call for ideas on how WikiDeal would collect and show these references.
馃幆 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): Draft open call, under construction, wave 2, not yet launched, considered important. Market portals would include repertoires of relevant legal references, from constitutions to specifics. The initial hypothesis is to point to external official sources rather than copy them, with a bot maintaining links. This call would invite jurists with wiki culture. Scope to be defined.
| Open Call Status | |
|---|---|
| Wave | Second Wave (Draft) |
| Status | Not launched yet |
| Members / Commission | Undetermined (Under construction) |
| Chairperson | TBD |
| Facilitator | TBD |
Open call: legal references for contracts (draft, under construction)
| Status | Draft, under construction, not yet launched |
| Wave | 2 |
| Deadline | To be defined at launch |
| Awards | To be defined |
| How to propose | Not open yet |
What this call is intended to be about
Contracts on WikiDeal would always rest on legal references. The Market portals are therefore intended to include repertoires of the laws relevant to each market, ordered from the most fundamental to the most specific: constitutions, then codes and statutes, down to the specific rules that apply to a given activity.
A first strategic question is pointing versus copying. The initial hypothesis, proposed as a working basis, is to point to the official external sources rather than to copy them internally, with a bot that maintains the links up to date and, when a source has disappeared, retrieves it from the Internet Archive (archive.org). Keeping full internal copies does not seem pertinent at this stage; this call is intended to examine that hypothesis.
This draft call, considered an important one, is intended to invite jurists with a strong wiki culture to design the strategy for the collection, conservation, verification and availability of all the legal documents that serve as references for contracts.
Open questions for this call
- Should the legal references be hosted internally or pointed to externally?
- How would jurisprudence and application modalities be treated?
- How deep into the details should the repertoires go?
- Who does this serve, and which uses come first?
- What are the right questions to ask, beyond this first list?
Status
This is a wave 2 draft: it is announced as an upcoming open call and is not yet launched. Scope, awards and deadline are intended to be defined at launch. The general rules of the Open Call would apply, in particular the rules of the game.