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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
[email protected]
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Topics
• Problems with searching and citing
• Some theory on identifiers and citations
• The Dutch experience
• European Case Law Identifier
• Metadata
• Document structures
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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.
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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
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The problem
• Identifiers are on expression level, vendor and
medium specific
• Attributes not usable as an identifier
• Long citations needed
expressionAB p. 93-99
expressionKL 320
expressionDH p.482
work
expressionBB 4701
no identifier
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Solution in the Netherlands
1. Identifier at the work level
2. Building a register
3. Putting the index on line
4. Public private standardization
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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
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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
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Prerequisites
• A national court designated identifier (work level)
• A freely accessible index
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Metadata
• Various metadata added
• Development of a European metadata model
– Work - expression
• Standards, e.g. Dublin Core
• Extensible
• In the ECLI-repository?
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Document structures
• Advanced searches and display
• Automated analysis of cases
• Interconnect information in judgments
• Adaptation of production process?
• CEN/Metalex: www.metalex.eu
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Conclusion
• Many different initiatives, diversity has to be
cherished
• Some standardization could give a lot of added value
– Identifier
– Metadata
– Document structures
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… thank you