Creating Context Networks in Dutch Legislation

This paper describes ongoing research on automatically determining relevant context to display to a user of a legislative portal given the article they are retrieving, purely based on ‘objective’ criteria inferred from the network of sources of law. A first prototype is presented and a formative evaluation of it by legal expert users. Results are promising, but there is room for improvement

openlaws.eu: Overview on scientific publications

OpenLaws is an ambitious legal information project that builds on open data, open innovation and open source software. OpenLaws will help you find legal information more easily, organize it the way you want and share it with others. The Internet platform is adding a “social layer” to the existing “institutional layer” of legal information systems. Together with the different stakeholders, we will create a network between legislation, case law, legal literature and legal experts - both on a national and a European level, leading to better access to legal information. The openlaws core team will also create a “BOLD“ Vision 2020 about what Big Open Legal Data (BOLD) can do in the future and propose a roadmap to the European Commission. This report gives a short overview of all scientific publications produced during and immediately after the end of the project