Paper Info
Title
Facilitating Re-use of Legal Data in Applications - Finnish Law as a Linked Open Data Service.
Abstract
Juridical information is important to organizations and individuals alike and is needed in all walks of life. The Finnish government has therefore published Finnish law and related juridical documents on the Web as a service called Finlex. However, even if the documents there are openly available for humans to read, the underlying data has not been open, is based on a traditional XML schema, and does not conform to new semantic metadata standards and Linked Data principles. As a result, the data is difficult to re-use in applications, the datasets are not interoperable with each other, are difficult to link to external data sources, and lots of manual work is needed in producing and using the data. To mitigate these problems, this paper presents Semantic Finlex, the first attempt at publishing Finnish law as a Linked Open Data service, with an analysis and examples of benefits and challenges encountered when applying the technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/978-1-61499-468-8-115
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Linked Open Data,Legal knowledge publication,Web Services
Data mining,Interoperability,Computer science,Linked data,Knowledge management,XML schema,Publishing,Law,Government,Metadata,World Wide Web,Legal research,Web service
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
271
0922-6389
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matias Frosterus1547.28
Jouni Tuominen217827.45
Eero Hyvönen3843103.43