Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0680-1
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.2000.875156
