The MetaLex Document Server Legal Documents as Versioned Linked Data

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • L. Aroyo
  • C. Welty
  • H. Alani
  • J. Taylor
  • A. Bernstein
  • L. Kagal
  • N. Noy
  • E. Blomqvist
Book title The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011
Book subtitle 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783642250927
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642250934
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 128-143
Number of pages 16
Publisher Heidelberg: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Leibniz Center for Law (FdR)
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.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25093-4_9
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