Official Journal of Luxembourg legilux.public · 2018-01-08 · Official Journal of Luxembourg legilux.public.lu Challenges of the digital age: better access to legal information

Official Journal of Luxembourglegilux.public.lu

Challenges of the digital age:better access to legal information for EU citizens

Brussels 2017

John DannDirector of the Official Journal of Luxembourg

Opportunities

Modernise O.J. publishing Facilitate the accessibility and participation

• access to public Information ‐ PSI Directive

Further digitalisation of public services• enrichment of analysis for better decision making• exchange and interconnection of data

Research, Innovation and Development• towards an ”Legislative Open Data“

Increase transparency and efficiency• promote participatory democracy• better reflect the needs of users

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Old Legilux.lu and publishing method

Not user‐friendly• complicated search• user needs not met

Paper based philosophy • PDF only• lack of computer‐readable

information

Manual and time consuming process to publish

High cost due to externalisation

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Project “Casemates”

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Différentes théories pour l’origine du mot Casemates :

Origine italienne :« Casa », maison en italien, et « matto », fou en italien mais dans ce cas ce qui signifie faux.D'autres prennent « matto » au sens italien archaïque de l'obscurité, équivalent à l'anglais mats, comme opaque, rendant un « casamatta » une maison obscure servant aussi de prisons militaires.Origine arabe :« Kasaba », translittéré à « kasbah », ou « alcazaba » pour forteresse en espagnol.Origine grec : Provenant du mot grec « khasma », signifiant mines, dont le pluriel qui est « khasmata ».Origine espagnole : « Casa », maison en espagnol, et « matar », tuer en espagnol, faisant une casemate une maison dans laquelle meurtre se produit.

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Legal DataWeb‐based

XML editor

Electronic O.J. with legal value

legilux.lu

User Tools

ELI Open Data

From Draft to

Publication


• Increase quality & reduce errors

• Efficiency• Swift publications • Reduce costs

Treaties

MetadataOntologyRDFXML HTML etc


Rethink publishing methods Electronic version with legal value

• electronic seal – First O.J. to use e‐seal

Guarantee publication is done internally• Flexibility to publish individual acts• Increase quality and reduce possible errors

Fully integrate ELI User needs:

• consolidated acts with “point in time”• personalised alerts … 6

Legilux.public.lu

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Legilux.public.lu

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Legilux.public.lu ‐Timeline

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Legilux.public.lu – display information

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Legilux.public.lu – RDF relations

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All relations of the act directly from the Triple Store

Legilux.public.lu – Favourites

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Legilux.public.lu – My Documents

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Legilux.public.lu ‐ Advanced search

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Legilux.public.lu – Alerting users

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URI structure based on citation

http://data.legilux.public. Luxembourg official Journal website

lu for Luxembourg

eli to show that it is a European Legislation Identifier

etat documents from the Government

type_Memorial type of the Official Journal : “leg” for legislation , “adm” for administrative acts

type nature of the act (law, decree, etc.)

year / month / day date of signature of the act (not date of Publication)

id unique identifier (sequence number or number of memorial)

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/{type_Memorial}/{type}/{year}/{month}/{day}/{id}

ELI URI based on FRBR model

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http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439 http://data.legilux.public.lu/el

i/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr/html

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14

/a439/jo/fr/xml

Legal Resources

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr

Language: FRTitle: Mémorial A n° 439 de 2017

Abstract resources

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/memorial/2017/a439

Legal Resources published

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr/rdf

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr/pdf

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/memorial/2

017/a439/pdf

Legal Expression

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439 redirection

Manifestation

ELI URI based on FRBR ‐ Luxembourg

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http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr/html

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr/xml

Legal Resources

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr

Language: FRTitle: Mémorial A n° 439 de 2017

Abstract resources

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/memorial/2017/a439

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr/rdf

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/jo/fr/pdf

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/memorial/2017/a439/pdf

Legal Expression

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439 redirection depending on information available

Manifestation

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/consolide

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/consolide/fr/20170630

http://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2017/03/14/a439/consolide/20170630/html

How did we do it ?

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Ontology: object properties legal resource

EUArticle

Consolidation

hasArticle

ArticleConsolidation

Draft

consolidatedBy

consolidatedBy

only metadata

Metadata and content

ActAbstractmemberOf

basedOncites

modifiesrepeals

Article

MemorialSerialMemorial

EUDirective

hasArticle

Agent

Transposition

signedBycounterSignedByresponsabilityOf

transposes

transposes

LegalResourceDocumentType

InforcementStatus

Administrative Area

LegalSubject

subjectLevel1subjectLevel2

inforcementStatus typeDocument applicabilityArea

LegalResource

NationalLegalResource

EULegalResource

formerVersion

basedOnrectifiedBy

isPartOf

initiatedBy draft

implements

isPartOf

isBasicActOf

memberOf

implements

EU Reglementation

hasArticle

basedOn

transposedEUDirective

resultingActtranspositionDraft

subject

resp

onsa

bilit

yOf

Codemodifies

AbstractCodememberOf

Collection

CollectionAbstract

memberOfintegratesLegal

Resource

Act

ArticleAbstract

memberOf

BaseAct

memberOf

Ontology: object properties ‐ projets

Draft

InitialDraft

Amendment

NationalLegalResource

resultingLegalResource (draft)

hasAmendment(isAmendmentOf)

TaskAtMinistry

opinionIsAbout

OpinionMinistry

OpinionConseilEtat

TaskAtChambreDeputes

TransmissionTaskAtSCL

TaskAtSCL

isSubTaskOf

OpinionProfessionalOrganisation

OpinionDocument

©◊

isTaskOfDraft (draftHasTask)

ResourceType

documentType

hasResultingDocument (isOutputDocumentOf)

Transposition

responsabilityOf

transpositionProcess (inverse of transpositionDraft)

amendmentType

Opinion

Work

TaskinstitutionInChargeOfTheTask

memberAtChambreDeputes

committeeInCharge

responsiblePersonpersonInCharge

rapporteur

incomingCorrespondanceIssueroutgoingCorrespndanceAddressee

PriorityLevel

priorityLevel

TransmissionMarechalat

LegalInstitution

Person

Agent

OpinionRequestanswerToOpinionRequest opinionRequestTo

LegalInstitution

possibleChangesOnLegalResource

opinionRequestIsAbout

otherConcernedMinistry

rapporteur

committeeInCharge

Event

isOpinionOf

StatusOpinion

StatusDraft

jolux:draftStatusConseilEtat

Controlled vocabularies

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Journal officiel Acteurs juridiques jolux:LegalInstitutionJournal officiel Historique des acteurs juridiques jolux:LegalInstitutionHistoryJournal officiel, traités Sujets thématiques jolux:LegalSubjectThemeJournal officiel Sujets organisations jolux:LegalSubjectOrganisationJournal officiel Sujets texte juridique jolux:LegalSubjectLegalResourceJournal officiel Sujets lieux jolux:LegalSubjectPlaceJournal officiel Types de documents jolux:LegalResourceDocumentTypeJournal officiel Statuts de mise en application jolux:InforcementStatusJournal officiel Statuts de transposition jolux:TranspositionStatusJournal officiel Statuts des versions jolux:StatutVersionJournal officiel Types de procédures jolux:ProcessTypeJournal officiel Formats utilisateurs jolux:UserFormatJournal officiel Liste des licences jolux:LicenseJournal officiel Type de rôle des agents prov prov:RoleJournal officiel Liste des utilisateurs Prov:Agent

XML editing tool

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XML Editor

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Automatic conversion tool

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Convert PDF or .doc into XML and Provide automated assistance for metadata extraction

Create structures (sections, articles, paragraphs, etc.)

Include cross references with ELI URIs

Results for Structural Metadata

Five Codes processed so far: Civil Code, Commercial Code, Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, New Code for Civil Procedure

>20,000 structural markup elements• Including >5000 articles and >4000 cross references

~91% of generated markup is fully correct ~8% of markup needs tweaks (often minor) ~1% of markup needs to be manually inserted

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Casemates back‐office

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Casemates Back office – EurLex

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SPARQL

During injection of the XML, Casemates automatically retrieves all the data concerning EU acts

Open data – data.legilux.public.lu

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Merci

Any questions or comments ?

[email protected]

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Big thanks to my team !