@inproceedings{6ed6b01efc8241a287055f77679ff918,
title = "The MetaLex document server: Legal documents as versioned linked data",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "law, legal xml, linked open data, metalex, open government, rdf",
author = "Rinke Hoekstra",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-25093-4\_9",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s",
isbn = "9783642250927",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "PART 2",
pages = "128--143",
booktitle = "The Semantic Web, ISWC 2011 - 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings",
edition = "PART 2",
note = "10th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2011 ; Conference date: 23-10-2011 Through 27-10-2011",
}