Workshop for ideas generation concerning the identified areas of ManyLaws project. The main objective of this workshop is to understand the ways in which user-centred design processes contribute to the development of a successful legal information system within the broader context of e-government. Organisers: Shefali Virkar, Researcher, Danube University Krems, Austria; Sofia Tsekeridou, Head of Security & Safety Lab, INTRASOFT International SA, Luxembourg

1. Legal Informatics Services, Challenges and Ideas
Introduction
CEF-TC-2017-3 - Public Open Data
Dr. Shefali Virkar, Danube University Krems, shefali.virkar@donau-uni.ac.at
Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou, INTRASOFT International S.A., sofia.tsekeridou@intrasoft-intl.com

2. To build the proper environment and vision of semantically annotated Big Open Legal Data
(BOLD), easily searchable and exploitable with advanced visualization techniques
To provide the technical foundation and the tools for making legal information available to
everybody, in a customizable, structured and easy to handle way
To deliver a set of key trans-European services that facilitate seamless and ubiquitous access to
legal data for citizens, businesses and administrations
Languages to address (by end of project): Greek, Austrian/German, English
Objectives

3. Target Groups Target Countries
Citizens
Lawyers
Businesses
Public Administrators
Scientific Community
Greece (Greek)
Austria (Austrian/German)
Europe (English)

4. 1. Parallel search in many EU member-state legal frameworks (through parallel translation of search terms),
using simple keywords
Services (backend and frontend)
8. Decision Support Services (e.g. Impact Assessment) within legal procedures
2. Assessment of the degree of transposition of an EU Directive in a National Legal Framework,
indicating relevant national legislation and monitoring the status of transpositions
3. Analysis of references to the European Legislation by National Laws
4. Comparative analysis of equivalent or relevant laws from different EU member states or connected laws
from the same member state
5. Timeline analysis for all legal elements, visualising the progress and current status of a specific
national or European legislation (after amendment/extensions) over time
6. Interrelation of laws and news or social media posts, including sentiment analysis
7. Various geo-related visualisations (e.g. EU maps indicating different parameters) and text-related
visualisations (e.g. sentiment graphs, interrelation maps, etc.) to illustrate correlations, dependencies
and conflicts between different laws

5. ● Search is available for all users (registered
or not)
● Enter keywords, optionally select country
and press Go
● If more than one country is selected the
search spans across more than one legal
frameworks
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Parallel Search - Simple keywords

6. On the results list the user can:
● Navigate to any result
● Select two or more (up to 6) results to
access the comparison or timeline analysis
services
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Search Results – Drill Down / Compare

7. ● Text comparison is taking place only
between two laws by highlighting common
terms
● The user selects from dropdown menu
desirable laws for comparison.
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Compare Results - Text Comparison Visualisation

8. Chart visualisation presenting the evolution of
different laws normalized under the same time-
axis
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Multiple Laws Timeline Analysis

9. By selecting a result from the list the user can:
1. View dataset details
2. View related files to the dataset
3. Select any available visualization service:
1. Visualisation of the connection
between a national law and an EU
directive.
2. Comparative analysis of
connected/related laws from the same
national legal frame. (Graph or Text
comparison)
3. Timeline visualisation of a law
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Selected Result – Multiple Services

10. Visualise the way that a national law is
connected to an EU directive
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3.1 Visualisation of the connection between a national law and an EU directive

11. ● The system finds connected laws from the
same member state based on keywords
● The left side holds the initial selected law.
● The right side holds all connected laws on a
combobox, so user can select one for text
comparison. (highlight text)
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3.2 Comparative analysis of connected laws from the same member state (Text)

12. Visualise the way that national laws from the
same member state are connected
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3.2 Comparative analysis of connected laws from the same member state (Graph)

13. Timeline visualization for changes of a law
within time
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3.3 Timeline Visualization

14. Thank you!