Linked Open Data for better legal information

Current status of the European Legislation Identifier in Spain

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https://doi.org/10.51915/ret.121

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Linked Open Data, Semantic Web, Legal Ontologies, Legal Texts, European Legislation Identifier

Abstract

The European Union has promoted the European Legislation Identifier (ELI) initiative. This initiative develops the ELI technical specification, which defines a flexible framework, so that each country can adapt it to its peculiarities, in order to improve legal information and treat legislation as Linked Open Data. Its implementation is based on the Semantic Web concept, and seeks to facilitate access, interoperability and reuse of information from European, national and regional legal publication systems. In this work, based on the ELI specification, a Theoretical Framework has been developed that describes the application of Linked Open Data from a model of technological and service evolution for the publication of legislation. Based on this Theoretical Framework, the current state of implementation of ELI in Spain has been analysed

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Pedro Juan Baquero Pérez, Universidad de La Laguna

Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1988) and PhD from the University of La Laguna (2011). Currently, he is a part-time lecturer in Telematic Engineering and head of the IT and Communications Service in the Canary Islands Government. He has worked in both the public and private sectors. In the public sectos, from 1992 he joined the General Directorate of Telecommunications of the General State Administration as a civil servant and in 1994 to 1999 in the Government of the Canary Islands. In 2006 he returned to the Canary Islands Government as a civil servant. In the public administration he has worked in different activities being the main one in the management of communication and computer projects. In the private sector, in 1999 he left the public sector to work both as a freelancer and in management positions in different companies (Canarias Telecom and Serviport). His main activity was the implementation of projects related to information technologies. In the research and academic field, in 1989 he began his professional career hired at Interuniversitary Microelectronic Center (Belgium) and then joined Telefónica I+D (Madrid). He has also been a part-time lecturer at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Currently, his main research lines are related to the management and application of ICT.

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2021-03-26

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Baquero Pérez, P. J. (2021). Linked Open Data for better legal information : Current status of the European Legislation Identifier in Spain. Spanish Journal of Transparency, (12), 87–123. https://doi.org/10.51915/ret.121

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No. 12 (2021): Spanish Journal of Transparency number 12 (First semester. January - June 2021)

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