Automatic version management of legislation: the Agora-Lex project

Author

Logghe, Maarten ; Van de Kerchove, Kris ; Moens, Marie Francine

Author_Institution

Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Inf. Technol., Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1051

Lastpage

1055

Abstract

The paper reports on ongoing research concerning the construction of a legal database named Agora-Lex. The aim of Agora-Lex is to develop a highly technological system for accessing legislation provided by the Belgian federal government. The Agora-Lex project develops a model and prototype for managing historical versions of legislation. In addition, it provides recommendations for data identification that would make it possible to harmonise the access to the legislative data of different federal institutions and to exchange data between them. The authors focus upon the relational database model that underlies the management of the historical versions of legislation and upon a highly needed intelligent interface for easy maintenance of the data

Keywords

electronic data interchange; government data processing; information resources; information retrieval; knowledge based systems; law administration; relational databases; temporal databases; user interfaces; Agora-Lex project; Belgian federal government; automatic version management; data exchange; data identification; data maintenance; federal institutions; highly technological system; historical versions; intelligent interface; legal database; legislation; legislative data access; relational database model; Councils; Databases; Government; History; Information technology; Law; Legal factors; Legislation; Project management; Technical drawing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0680-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2000.875156

Filename

875156