CH-Gesetzesdatenbank CHLexML Project FEDERAL DEPARTEMENT OF JUSTICE AND POLICE Federal Office of Justice Urs Paul Holenstein Ardita Driza Maurer Omar Abou

CH-Gesetzesdatenbank

CHLexML Project

FEDERAL DEPARTEMENTOF JUSTICE AND POLICE

Federal Office of Justice

Urs Paul HolensteinArdita Driza Maurer

Omar Abou KhaledHouda Chabbi Drissi

Mario Ramalho

MISL, University of Applied Sciences of Fribourg

22.09.04 Mario Ramalho Workshop on legislative XML

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• Context

• Swiss Specificities

• What is missing ?

• What is the solution ?

• Our approach

• Demonstrations

• Futur Works & Conclusion

Overview


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ContextFederal competences• Swiss Federal Institution• Coordination service for the

electronic publications of legal data

XML technologies competences• Mobile Information System

Laboratory of University of Applied Science of Fribourg


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Swiss Specificities

27 systems online

(chronological and systematic collections)


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Swiss Specificities

Ru + It + DeItFr Fr + De De

4 languages


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Swiss Specificities

Different classification systems

(systematic collections)

CANTONS USING MORE OR LESS THE FEDERAL CLASSIFICATION

CANTONS USING DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS


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Swiss Specificities

Numbers attributed to cantonal constitutions

According to cantonal classification systems

101.1101.1

101.1101.1

1100.000100.000

1.11.1

1.11011.1101

10.110.1

100100101101

101101

101101

101101

101101

101.000101.000

110.000110.000

110.100110.100

111111

…111.1111.1 ZG, SO, AR, SG

111.100111.100 BS

I A/1/1 I A/1/1 GL

A 2 00A 2 00

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.


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Swiss Specificities

Federal regulationOrdinance for electronic publication of legal data:

- Gratuity

- « Basic service » concept


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What is missing ?• Interoperable and exchange formats• Efficient and distributed IR systems • Chronological research possibilities• Fixed, predefined and up to date URLs

• Easier comparative search of cantonal legislations

• Easier access to and better understanding of the law (the citizen is supposed to know the law)


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Solution : Gesetzesdatenbank

• Common XML schema for federal & cantonal legislation

• Web portal unifying access to federal and cantonal legislation

CHLexML

Unified Portal


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CHLexML

• Why a generic model ?

– Open and interoperable data

– Production of legal document

• CHLexML will be the federal reference

– Each canton can have different models (translation)


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CHLexMLSpecificities • Swiss laws interpretation• Workflow integration• Multilingualism• Centralized information• Chronological storages


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Unified Portal

Why a portal ?

• Citizens centred services

• Data distributed

• Possibility of access to information from only one point

• Service integration


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Unified Portal

LEGALDATA

WebService

WebService

WebService

WebService

WebService

WebService

Citizens

Canton ofFribourg

Canton ofVaud

Canton ofNeuchâtel

Canton ofZurich

SwissConfederation

WebPortal

LEGALDATA

LEGALDATA

LEGALDATA

LEGALDATA

Each cantonal service manage his system and data


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TechnologiesXML Architecture• Office Suite (Office 2003)

– InfoPath, Word, Smart Docs• XML Native Database (Tamino Software

AG)– Persistent storage for legal data– Extensible and generic model– Advanced Search (laws, articles, dates,

…)• Web Services

– Approach solution for integration and communication of distributed system and data

Demonstrations


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Demonstration 1• Scenario:

– A secretary using an innovative system for the edition of the laws

• Solution approach– Editor WYSIWYG of structured,

simple and intuitive form respecting a generic model.

• Demonstration • Discussion


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Demonstration 2• Scenario:

– An agent wanting to recycle the data stored in a owner format towards an open interoperable format

• Solution approach– Structuring the documents

according to the generic model • Demonstration • Discussion

– Automatic Translation – Refining by a human specialist


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Demonstration 3

• Scenario: A lawyer wanting to check the update of the data in a document

• Solution approach

– Contextual Help for the drafting

• Demonstration

• Discussion


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Demonstration 4• Scenario: A citizen wanting to

reach the information targeted in a base of a canton

• Solution approach– Unified Portal– Legislative Retrieval

documents– Key word Retrieval

• Demonstration• Discussion


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Demonstration 5

• Scenario: A citizen wanting to compare a topic between two cantons

• Solution approach

– Unified Portal

– Alignment of the cantonal laws

• Demonstration

• Discussion


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Assessment• Copiur Buletin publication• 4 Macolin Juridical informatics

seminar – Program

• LexGO demonstration• CHLexML demonstration

– Public• Cantons and private

companies• Final Study


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Future Work• March 2005

Proposal CHLexML first draft to the cantons

• April / Mai 2005CHLexML validation by the cantons

• July 2005CHLexML Standardization

• Futur– Integrate CHLexML with the project of

federal chancellery– Ontology definition– Implementation of the future

architecture


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Conclusion

• XML technologies is the ideal solution to obtain

– Interoperable legal data

– Accessible legal data

– Simple and powerful integration approach

– Unified portal offering to the citizens a personalised and guided service.

Questions

More informations :

http://www.eif.ch/projets/CH-Gesetzesdatenbank

Urs Paul HolensteinArdita Driza Maurer

Omar Abou KhaledHouda Chabbi Drissi

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