Hoekstra on The MetaLex Document Server: Legal Documents as Versioned Linked Data

Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law has posted slides of a presentation entitled The MetaLex Document Server: Legal Documents as Versioned Linked Data.

The slides describe an approach in which regulations from the Wetten.nl site were processed to enable improved public access, re-use, and inclusion of data in the Semantic Web. Regulations were marked up in CEN MetaLex XML format; persistent, “Cool” URIs — generated from Juriconnect URNs — were added to enable version control and transparency; annotations were automatically added to the regulations and encoded in RDF as Linked Data; and the content was made available via a RESTful API.

For more information, please see the slides.

HT @RinkeHoekstra.

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