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Specialised Government Publishing:
The Law Pocket and Linked Legal Data in the Netherlands
Marc van Opijnen
Hayo Schreijer Ilja Andreas
Maarten Kroon
Law via Internet 2015 10-11 November 2015
Sydney Australia
Topics
• Linked Governmental Data
– The business case
– The project & the architecture
• The Law Pocket
– The business case
– The app
• Public versus Private Sector.
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The Business Case
• Public data available on a massive scale
• Available for reuse
• But the civil servant is just drowning more
– Disparate and scattered
– Not properly identified and tagged
– Not linked.
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The Project
• Don’t build a meta search engine, but collect and create Linked Data
• As base material for dedicated solutions within the public sector
• Assist public bodies and government officials to use this infrastructure.
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The Architecture
• ETL architecture: Extract Transform Load
– Extract open data from public bodies / repositories
– Transform to Linked Data (RDF triples + provenance)
• Link extractor
– Load into triple store
• Based on Apache Cocoon, XSLT.
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The Law Pocket: Business Case
• Civil servants (esp. jurists) need their legislation: – Up-to-date
– Sometimes with previous versions
– On very specific domains
– Annotated
– With related documents
– Shared with colleagues
– Portable
• Commercially not profitable.
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The Law Pocket: the App
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Splash screen
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My Pockets and Bundles
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Law Pockets: Edited collections of national or regional legislation on (very) specific topics. With
annotations, annexed documents and links.
Law Bundles: Generated collections of legislative families, or regulations of one specific municipality,
province or water board
Search for More
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Currently: 3.500 Bundles
65 Pockets.
The Table of Contents of a Bundle
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Nifty Functionalities
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Make your own notes
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Notes and bookmarks
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Metadata on the Web
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TOC Always at Hand
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TOC Always at Hand
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Extra Features in the Pockets
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More Granular Content
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Editorial Notes
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Additional Documents and Links
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Linked Data
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Linked Data
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The Portal
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Public vs. Private?
• Added value product with taxpayers’ money?
• Meant for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector
• The App is free
• Pockets and bundles can be downloaded by everybody
• Pockets can only be edited by civil servants.
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Thank you
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