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Identifiers, Metadata and Document Structures:

Identifiers, Metadata and Document Structures: Essential Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search Paris , 11-12-2008 Marc van Opijnen, sr. adviser legal informatics Council for the Judiciary, the Netherlands mvanopijnen@rechtspraak.nl. Topics. Problems with searching and citing

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Identifiers, Metadata and Document Structures:

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  1. Identifiers, Metadata and Document Structures: Essential Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search Paris, 11-12-2008 Marc van Opijnen, sr. adviser legal informatics Council for the Judiciary, the Netherlands mvanopijnen@rechtspraak.nl Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  2. Topics • Problems with searching and citing • Some theory on identifiers and citations • The Dutch experience • European Case Law Identifier • Metadata • Document structures Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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  17. How to cite? • European Court of Justice, 14-10-2004, C-299/02, European Court reports 2004, Page I-09761, Celex-nr 62002J0299, CASELEX:EU:2004:8, BAILII: [2004] EUECJ C-299/02, VLEX-17284540, NJ 2005, 421, a.s.o. Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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  24. Some theory • Work: a distinct intellectual or artistic creation • Expression: the intellectual or artistic realization of a work • Manifestation: the physical embodiment of an expression of a work • Item: a single exemplar of a manifestation Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  25. The problem • Identifiers are on expression level, vendor and medium specific • Attributes not usable as an identifier • Long citations needed work no identifier expression BB 4701 expression DH p.482 expression KL 320 expression AB p. 93-99 Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  26. Solution in the Netherlands • Identifier at the work level • Building a register • Putting the index on line • Public private standardization Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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  28. European Case Law Identifier • ECLI: on the work level • Recognizable • Not opaque: country, court, year • Readable • No substitution of national number, but including it • ECLI:country code:court code:year:number Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  29. Building ECLI • Italy, Corte Costituzionale 322/2008 • ECLI:IT:CC:2008:322 • Netherlands, LJN BC8581 (Hoge Raad, 01-04-2008) • ECLI:NL:HR:2008:BC8581 • Belgium, Raad van State/Conseil d’État, 185.273, 09-07-2008 • ECLI:BE:RSCE:2008:185273 • Finland, KKO:2008:97 • ECLI:FI:KKO:2008:97 Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  30. Prerequisites • A national court designated identifier (work level) • A freely accessible index Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  31. Metadata • Various metadata added • Development of a European metadata model • Work - expression • Standards, e.g. Dublin Core • Extensible • In the ECLI-repository? Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  32. Document structures • Advanced searches and display • Automated analysis of cases • Interconnect information in judgments • Adaptation of production process? • CEN/Metalex: www.metalex.eu Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  33. Conclusion • Many different initiatives, diversity has to be cherished • Some standardization could give a lot of added value • Identifier • Metadata • Document structures Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  34. … thank you Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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