Akoma Ntoso

Akoma Ntoso (often called AKN) is a set schema to represent legislative, policy, and legal documents in XML. Using Akoma Ntoso to mark up documents makes them easier to search and annotate—especially as regulations change.

Example Akoma Ntoso documents and similar implementations

• examples.akomantoso.org
• at4am.org (Automatic Tool for AMendments) is the tool used by the EU to mark up EU parliamentary documents.
• Xcental LegisPro is a major for-profit involved in the Akoma Ntoso standards.
• The Language Independent Markup Editor (Lime) is created by many of the academics who maintain a lot of the Akoma Ntoso standard.

Similar projects in US government

• United States Legislative Markup (USLM)