AKN Explorer
Interactive browser for Akoma Ntoso documents. Explore how different parliamentary document types link to each other — from laws and bills to debates and court rulings.
All documents below belong to the fictional Parliament of Gastronomia, where legislators debate the proper way to make paella. Every cross-reference between documents is a clickable link, so you can navigate the full legislative process as a connected web of AKN files.
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Acts
An act is a law that has been formally enacted by a legislature. It represents the final, binding version of legislation — the text that citizens must follow. In AKN, acts have a structured body with sections, articles, and paragraphs.
Bills
A bill is a proposed law submitted to a legislature for debate and vote. It typically references the act it intends to modify, and includes a preamble explaining the rationale for the changes. Bills contain modification instructions (using <mod> and <ins> elements) that describe how existing law should change.
Amendments
An amendment is a proposed modification to a bill during its legislative process. Individual legislators submit amendments to change specific parts of a bill before the final vote. Each amendment targets specific articles and includes a justification.
Debates
A debate record captures the transcript of a legislative session — who spoke, what they said, and in what order. AKN debates are structured as a sequence of speeches within debate sections, preserving the parliamentary record verbatim.
Judgments
A judgment is a court decision. In AKN, judgments follow a structured format: header (court and case info), introduction, background (facts), arguments (legal reasoning), and decision (the ruling). Judges may reference legislation and prior proceedings.
Official Gazettes
An official gazette is the government publication where laws, decrees, and official notices are formally published. It acts as a collection of references to other documents, making them officially public and legally effective.
Document Collections
A document collection groups related documents into a single navigable package. It is used for legislative dossiers — linking together the original law, bills, amendments, debate records, and final texts of a single legislative process.
Generic Documents
A generic document type for anything that does not fit the more specific categories — committee reports, technical studies, opinions, or administrative documents that are part of the legislative process but have their own format.
Parlamento.ai Extensions
The following document types are not part of the Akoma Ntoso standard. They are extensions designed by Parlamento.ai to cover gaps in parliamentary operations. Labels marked with an asterisk (*) indicate these non-standard types.
Citations
A citation is a formal call to a session, including date, time, place, and the ordered agenda of items to be discussed.
Questions
A question is a written parliamentary query to the executive, tracking status, deadlines, and the eventual response in a single document.
Communications
A communication is a formal transmission between institutions, recording who sends what to whom and which document it refers to.