Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 5, 2011 erstellt
Beschreibung:
The online publication of legal materials by governments and administrations is not recent, nevertheless, nowadays some of these materials are being made available in machine readable formats, and follow the Linked Open Data principles: URI naming of resources, assertions about named relationships between resources or between resources and data values, and the possibility to easily extend, update and modify these relationships and resources.The combination of the publication of legislation, regulations, judicial cases, or administrative decisions as Linked Open Legal Data together with the availability of legal OWL/RDF ontologies and SKOS thesauri, could offer new possibilities to enhance not only access but also understanding of legal information. This paper outlines the possibilities offered by the use Open Legal Data, and gives a preliminary description of the ongoing work on the reuse of the Code of Federal Regulations and one of its finding aids, the Thesaurus of Indexing Terms. An improved version of this paper has been accepted for presentation at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges, November 5-6, Arlington, VA. It will be published as part of the Technical Reports