EU Law and Publications Access and reuse the content Jean-Philippe Florent 03 October 2017
Agenda The data = EU law, EU publications, EU Whoiswho, EU vocabularies How to reuse Explore the data Documentation
The Data : Content managed and stored by the Publications Office EU Law : 1,08 million publications / 6,9 million PDF EU Publications : 90,642 publications / 340,099 PDF EU Vocabularies: 4347 publications / 56,405 XHTML EU officials (Who is who): 38,857 persons / 4,940 entities In total: 30 million documents (pdf, epub, xhtml,…) in more than 80 languages
How to reuse : some use cases 1. Actions for failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations (between 2006 and 2012) Collection : EU Law
How to reuse : some use cases 2. Top 30 of most used Eurovoc terms to tag EU law and EU publications Collections : EU Law & EU publications
How to reuse : some use cases 3. Main EU law pieces as of 1952 Collection : EU Law
How to reuse : some use cases 4. EU Whoiswho: Number of membership by what they "represent" Collections : Who is Who
Explore our data Machine or Human? or machine driver publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql publications.europa.eu
Cellar services for machines and developers SPARQL endpoint: publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql CELLAR API : contains methods to easily retrieve the requested content: - tree and branch notice of a work - retrieve all the identifiers of a specific document - retrieve the RDF/XML formatted metadata for a given resource … CELLAR API : also contains methods to invoke services on NAL (Named Authority Lists)/EUROVOC objects: - retrieve a dump - retrieve a concept - retrieve the concept relatives …
OP Portal: publications.europa.eu
OP Portal core services Search and advanced search Refining tools (facets) Detail page Permanent link and friendly URL's Personalized services: saved publications saved searches email alerts RSS feed
OP Portal advanced services Linked data wizard Flint Editor Annotations and share annotations on documents Alerts on documents Extended metadata links (editions, related publications…) Widgets
Documentation The Common Data Model (CDM) of the Publications Office: http://www.cc.cec/wikis/display/OP/CMR+Common+Data+Model Maintenance and Evolution of the CELLAR - External End User Manual : https://publications.europa.eu/documents/2050822/0/CEM-EEU-External+End+User+manual-v15+00.pdf Web tools on publications.europa.eu: http://publications.europa.eu/en/web/web-tools/home Types of documents in EUR-lex (EU Law): http://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/tools/TableOfSectors/types_of_documents_in_eurlex.html EU vocabularies: http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/index.html Contact: info@publications.europa.eu
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