1. EU Law and Publications Access and reuse the content
Jean-Philippe Florent
03 October 2017

2. Agenda
The data = EU law, EU publications, EU Whoiswho, EU vocabularies
How to reuse
Explore the data
Documentation

3. 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

4. How to reuse : some use cases
1. Actions for failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations (between and 2012)
Collection : EU Law

5. 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

6. How to reuse : some use cases
3. Main EU law pieces as of 1952
Collection : EU Law

7. How to reuse : some use cases
4. EU Whoiswho: Number of membership by what they "represent"
Collections : Who is Who

8. Explore our data Machine or Human?
or machine driver
publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql
publications.europa.eu

9. 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 …

10. OP Portal: publications.europa.eu

11. 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
alerts
RSS feed

12. 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

13. Documentation The Common Data Model (CDM) of the Publications Office:
Maintenance and Evolution of the CELLAR - External End User Manual :
Web tools on publications.europa.eu:
Types of documents in EUR-lex (EU Law):
EU vocabularies:
Contact:

14. Questions ?