TY - GEN
T1 - The MetaLex document server
T2 - 10th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2011
AU - Hoekstra, Rinke
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper introduces the MetaLex Document Server (MDS), an ongoing project to improve access to legal sources (regulations, court rulings) by means of a generic legal XML syntax (CEN MetaLex) and Linked Data. The MDS defines a generic conversion mechanism from legacy legal XML syntaxes to CEN MetaLex, RDF and Pajek network files, and discloses content by means of HTTP-based content negotiation, a SPARQL endpoint and a basic search interface. MDS combines a transparent (versioned) and opaque (content-based) naming scheme for URIs of parts of legal texts, allowing for tracking of version information at the URI-level, as well as reverse engineering of versioned metadata from sources that provide only partial information, such as many web-based legal content services. The MDS hosts all 28k national regulations of the Netherlands available since May 2011, comprising some 100M triples.
AB - This paper introduces the MetaLex Document Server (MDS), an ongoing project to improve access to legal sources (regulations, court rulings) by means of a generic legal XML syntax (CEN MetaLex) and Linked Data. The MDS defines a generic conversion mechanism from legacy legal XML syntaxes to CEN MetaLex, RDF and Pajek network files, and discloses content by means of HTTP-based content negotiation, a SPARQL endpoint and a basic search interface. MDS combines a transparent (versioned) and opaque (content-based) naming scheme for URIs of parts of legal texts, allowing for tracking of version information at the URI-level, as well as reverse engineering of versioned metadata from sources that provide only partial information, such as many web-based legal content services. The MDS hosts all 28k national regulations of the Netherlands available since May 2011, comprising some 100M triples.
KW - law
KW - legal xml
KW - linked open data
KW - metalex
KW - open government
KW - rdf
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80055047345&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-25093-4_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-25093-4_9
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:80055047345
SN - 9783642250927
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 128
EP - 143
BT - The Semantic Web, ISWC 2011 - 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings
Y2 - 23 October 2011 through 27 October 2011
ER -