Next generation content/COPE
ILAO’s structured content types were created to create a “Create Once Publish Everywhere” model based on a problem/solution(s) approach.
It evolved from much of ILAO’s work over the last twenty years, including:
Improving the way we create and manage jurisdiction specific content
Trying to streamline legal information into more actionable pieces
Improving the ability to reuse legal information
Create clearer structure for legal information rather than
Breaking large chunks of text into smaller pieces that can be delivered in different ways more easily. For example:
Displaying a list of question titles on a single page
Displaying a single question on a page
Providing a list of steps over SMS and asking the user which step they’d like to read.
Delivering a select step over multiple text messages with no HTML formatting and with logical breaks, which is not supported on SMS
Delivering a list of items as a bulleted list on desktop, a swipe left/right grid on mobile, and with asterisk-prefixed items on SMS from the same piece of content
Delivering a list of steps in a solution over an API into an instance of Legal Server where a case worker can then select the step to send to a client after providing basic advice
It is modeled after various elements of schema.org. Because there is no legal problem type in schema.org, ILAO modeled its standard on schema.org medical structures as well as more standardized types like article, how to, organizations, question, and forms.