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Re-use of Legislative Publications Latvian Experience

Re-use of Legislative Publications Latvian Experience. Juris Retenais EU Forum of Official Gazettes Riga, September 15, 2011. Agenda. E-publishing of Latvian Legislation Re-use of Legislative Publications Re-use by private sector Improvements of Legislative Publications

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Re-use of Legislative Publications Latvian Experience

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  1. Re-use of LegislativePublicationsLatvian Experience Juris Retenais EU Forum of Official Gazettes Riga, September 15, 2011

  2. Agenda • E-publishing of Latvian Legislation • Re-use of Legislative Publications • Re-use by private sector • Improvements of Legislative Publications • Questions & Answers

  3. E-publishing of Latvian Legislation Today • likumi.lv = e-version of official (paper) publication • Maintained by government enterprise LatvijasVēstnesis (LV) • Publishes consolidated legislative acts and historic and future versions of consolidated acts • Current version of LP “on top“ • Free of charge

  4. History of Legislative E-publishing before Crisis • nais.lv, privately owned database • 1st version built in 1991 • Publishings obtained in electronic (Word ) form directly from Legislative institutions • Pay for subscription or per document • No other options • Quite expensive to cover all public sector needs (1000+ institutions)

  5. Re-use of Legislative Publications • Anybody can reuse with reference to source • Governmental institutions: • re-publish on their web-sites • Publish links to likumi.lv • Private Sector • Privately owned legislative databases • Re-publish on their web-sites • Publish links to likumi.lv

  6. Re-use by private sector • Privately owned legislative databases: • Nais.lv • Has contract with Official Publisher • Has on-line data exchange channel (pay per document) • Has free public version with simple functionality • Subscription fee for extended functionality, e.g. search • Maintains current information • e-likumi.lv • No agreement with Official Publisher • Supports core business of printing law collections • Pay per document, except latest 2 months of Parliament & Council of Ministers documents • Publishing delayed

  7. Re-use by private sector (cont.) • latlex.lv • No agreement with Official Publisher • LPs free, but formatting primitive • Added value: internal and external navigation to direct references, links to court rulings (pay per document) • Publishing delayed • l2d.lv • Has agreement with Official Publisher • Downloads LPs from likumi.lv (no effort on LV part) • Added value: internal navigation, external navigation based on key-words & -phrases , EuroVoc • Maintains current information (Currently free)

  8. Improvements of Legislative Publications by L2D.LV • L2D.LV is abbreviation of Legislation in 2 Dimensions • Goal: make LPs easy to read & save time • Internal navigation (reference to Articles, clauses) • Direct external navigation (laws by name, EU directives by number) • External navigation by key-words/-phrases • Using EuroVoc • Subscription to RSS • Improve quality of legislative publications

  9. Live DEMO of www.l2d.lv • Currently Latvian • Prototype in English • Customizable to other languages

  10. L2D Links to Related Documents • Fragment from Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work with links

  11. L2D List to Related Documents • Fragment from Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work with links

  12. L2D Full List to Related Doc-ts • Fragment from Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work with links and full searchable list of related documents

  13. L2D Auto-detection & Links • Fragment from Latvian Labour Law

  14. L2D Internal Navigation Links • Fragment from Latvian Labour Law

  15. L2D Using EuroVoc Thesaurus • Search in your language, get results for Latvia

  16. L2D Using EuroVoc Thesaurus (cont.) • Google Translate the list of documents • Open the document you are interested in • Copy the link and feed it to Google Translate

  17. Questions & Answers • Thank you for your attention!

  18. Contacts • Juris Retenais, PMP • Netcards SIA • 5 Visbijas prospekts, Riga, Latvia, LV-1014 • juris.retenais@netcard.lv • +371 6738 7748

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