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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812335703321

Titolo

From information to knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : online access to legal information : methodologies, trends and perspectives / / edited by Maria Angela Biasiotti and Sebastiano Faro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Washington, D.C., : IOS Press, c2011

ISBN

6613433128

1-283-43312-5

9786613433121

1-60750-988-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, , 0922-6389 ; ; v. 236

Altri autori (Persone)

BiasiottiMaria

FaroSebastiano

Disciplina

025.0634

Soggetti

Information storage and retrieval systems - Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Preface; Contents; Introduction: Present and Future Trends of Online Access to Legal Information; Access to Legislation in the Semantic Web; EUR-Lex: Towards a Common Legal Portal; Online Access to UK Legislation: Strategy and Structure; Access to Documents in the EU Law; Right of Access to Documents: The Implementation of Article 42 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights; Eunomos, a Web 3.0 Legal Knowledge Management System that Helps People Make Sense of the Law; Experiences with ""Lex Dania Live""

Automatic Classification of Documents for the Library of the Italian Chamber of DeputiesProper Treatment of Gaps in Legal Data and Commercial Electronic Legal Search Services; European Case Law Identifier: Indispensable Asset for Legal Information Retrieval; On Legal Argumentation Techniques: Towards a Systematic Approach; Knowledge Reuse in the Construction of Linguistic and Semantic Legal Resources and Annotated Corpora: Legal Issues; A Comprehensive Free Access Legal Information System for Europe; Open Access to Legal Scholarship and Open Archives: Towards a Better Future?; Subject Index



Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

Access to accurate legal information is of great importance. Certainty of the law, creating the conditions necessary to equality and fairness in a legal system and improving the functioning of democratic institutions, depends upon it. Citizens have a right to information about the laws which govern their conduct and governments have an obligation to enable access to the law by means of all available and practicable tools. This book presents papers delivered at the workshop 'From Information to Knowledge - Online Access to Legal Information', held in Florence, Italy, in May 2011. This workshop