The Ontology-Based Approach of the Publications Office of the EU for Document Accessibility and Open Data Services

Francesconi, Enrico; Küster, Marc Wilhelm; Gratz, Patrick; Thelén, Sebastian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22389-6_3

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“…Individual deviations from these standards undermine the fundamental ideas of easier access to legal information across borders. One of the drawbacks of the current modeling standard, is the need to write queries in order to retrieve certain data as shown by Francesconi et al (2015). The proposed solution, which involves decoupling the ELI and FRBR ontologies, needs to be approached and initiated in a centralized manner, for instance via a stakeholder engagement process whereby national experts who know their legal system and experts from the responsible EU institutions work together in order to shape future ELI and ECLI enhancements.…”

Section: Information Provisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The linked legal data landscape: linking legal data across different countries

2021

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The European Union is working towards harmonizing legislation across Europe, in order to improve cross-border interchange of legal information. This goal is supported for instance via standards such as the European Law Identifier (ELI) and the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI), which provide technical specifications for Web identifiers and suggestions for vocabularies to be used to describe metadata pertaining to legal documents in a machine readable format. Notably, these ECLI and ELI metadata standards adhere to the RDF data format which forms the basis of Linked Data, and therefore have the potential to form a basis for a pan-European legal Knowledge Graph. Unfortunately, to date said specifications have only been partially adopted by EU member states. In this paper we describe a methodology to transform the existing legal information system used in Austria to such a legal knowledge graph covering different steps from modeling national specific aspects, to population, and finally the integration of legal data from other countries through linked data. We demonstrate the usefulness of this approach by exemplifying practical use cases from legal information search, which are not possible in an automated fashion so far.

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Section: Information Provisionmentioning

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“…Ontologies are subject to improvement over time. In the legal domain, Francesconi et al (2015) highlight drawbacks in the modeling of the CDM ontology used by the EU leading to unnecessarily complex queries and show how they could be resolved.…”

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The linked legal data landscape: linking legal data across different countries

2021

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“…En CELLAR el grafo de conocimiento 12 legal se almacena dentro de EUR-Lex. Se trata de un depósito semántico que contiene una descripción estructurada de toda la legislación de la UE (Francesconi et al, 2015). La base de datos de CELLAR puede consultarse libremente desde el exterior utilizando SPARQL.…”

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Pérez

2021

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La Unión Europea ha promovido la iniciativa European Legislation Identifier (ELI). En esta iniciativa se desarrolla la especificación técnica ELI, la cual define un marco flexible, de forma que cada país se adapte a sus peculiaridades con el fin de mejorar la información jurídica y tratando la legislación como datos abiertos y entrelazados. Su implementación se basa en el concepto de la WEB Semántica, y trata de facilitar el acceso, la interoperabilidad y reutilización de la información de los sistemas de publicación de normativa legal europeos, nacionales y regionales. En este trabajo, basado en la especificación ELI, se ha desarrollado un Marco Teórico que describe un modelo de evolución, tanto tecnológico como de servicios, para la aplicación de los datos abiertos entrelazados a la publicación de la legislación. En base a este Marco Teórico, se ha analizado el estado actual de la implantación en España de ELI.

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“…Cellar includes about 150 millions of documents in 24 languages; metadata in as many languages are stored and described in RDF, resulting in about 800 millions of triples. Currently the Cellar SPARQL endpoint, recently exposed in order to complement linked open data services to potential consumers [9], receives about 10 million requests per day (Cellar statistics dated April 2018). Cellar is also the source of information of the Eur-Lex portal (http://www.eurlex.eu) which provides access to several types of legal resources including treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals.…”

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On the Future of Legal Publishing Services in the Semantic Web

Francesconi

2018

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Abstract:The development of the Semantic Web represents an essential precondition to the definition of new scenarios for the future Internet. This perspective is of particular interest in the legal information domain for the specialized nature of legal information and the peculiarities of the legal users' information needs. In this paper, the evolution in recent years of the Semantic Web in the legal domain is reviewed, with particular emphasis to the most recent developments related to Linked Open Data initiative and to the role, in the legal Semantic Web, of the Publications Office of the European Union in its two-fold role of public institution and legal publisher.

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The Ontology-Based Approach of the Publications Office of the EU for Document Accessibility and Open Data Services

Cited by 18 publications

References 2 publications

The linked legal data landscape: linking legal data across different countries

The linked legal data landscape: linking legal data across different countries

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On the Future of Legal Publishing Services in the Semantic Web

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