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Openlaws.eu: Open Justice in Europe through Open Access to Legal Information
2017
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Title
Openlaws.eu: Open Justice in Europe through Open Access to Legal Information
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Item Type
Book
Description
1 online resource (Chapter, pp. 18) :
ISBN
9781522507178 e-book
Summary
Legal texts represent a fundamental building block in all democratic states. As such, legal information must be accessible to all members of society to the widest possible extent, to aid inclusiveness and to enable participation in public decision-making. In recognition of this, the EU and its Member States work to make laws, court decisions, etc. publicly available online. The sheer mass of legal norms, instruments, and interpretations in court decisions, commentaries and other sources, makes it increasingly difficult for citizens, civil society, businesses, and all involved stakeholders in legal practices to locate the relevant law. The challenge is to interlink local legal information and to have structures in place to enrich this information through aggregation and mass customization. The technological possibilities to achieve this goal do exist. The European project openlaws.eu aims for initiating a platform and to develop a vision for Big Open Legal Data (BOLD): an open framework for legislation, case law, and legal literature from across Europe.
In
Achieving Open Justice through Citizen Participation and Transparency Edited by Carlos E. Jiménez-Gómez and Mila Gascó-Hernández IGI Global
Published
Pennsylvania, USA: IGI Global, 2017.
Language
English
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