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Essential Ingredients for Effective Inter-European Case Law Search

This comprehensive guide outlines the critical components necessary for successful searching and citation of inter-European case law. Key topics include challenges related to searching and citing legal documents, foundational theory on identifiers and citations, the Dutch experience regarding standardization, and the importance of metadata and document structures. The presentation highlights the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) system as a vital tool for enhancing legal information retrieval, ensuring that case law is accessible and easily referenced across jurisdictions.

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Essential Ingredients for Effective Inter-European Case Law Search

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  1. 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 mvanopijnen@rechtspraak.nl Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  2. Topics • Problems with searching and citing • Some theory on identifiers and citations • The Dutch experience • European Case Law Identifier • Metadata • Document structures Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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  17. 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. Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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  24. 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 Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  25. The problem • Identifiers are on expression level, vendor and medium specific • Attributes not usable as an identifier • Long citations needed work no identifier expression BB 4701 expression DH p.482 expression KL 320 expression AB p. 93-99 Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  26. Solution in the Netherlands • Identifier at the work level • Building a register • Putting the index on line • Public private standardization Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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  28. 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 Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  29. 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 Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  30. Prerequisites • A national court designated identifier (work level) • A freely accessible index Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  31. Metadata • Various metadata added • Development of a European metadata model • Work - expression • Standards, e.g. Dublin Core • Extensible • In the ECLI-repository? Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  32. Document structures • Advanced searches and display • Automated analysis of cases • Interconnect information in judgments • Adaptation of production process? • CEN/Metalex: www.metalex.eu Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  33. Conclusion • Many different initiatives, diversity has to be cherished • Some standardization could give a lot of added value • Identifier • Metadata • Document structures Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

  34. … thank you Ingredients for Inter-European Case Law Search

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