Interoperability challenges in Lynx BDV-PPP Summit Riga, 28 June 2019

1. Building the Legal Knowledge Graph
for Smart Compliance Services in Multilingual Europe
http://lynx-project.eu/
Interoperability
challenges in Lynx
BDV-PPP Summit
Riga, 28 June 2019

2. http://lynx-project.eu
@lynxH2020

5. PILOT CONTRACTS
Contract processing is costful in terms of time and money.
• How to process contracts in a fast and efficient manner?
• Which clauses are sensitive regarding changes in the
legislation?
• Are there decisions which have
impacts to my contracts?
• How to get an overview of
contracts in other languages?

6. PILOT 2: GEOTHERMAL INDUSTRY
Lack of globally agreed standards, guidelines or codes in the
geothermal domain. Regulatory sources can differ across
regions, be in different languages, and be less or more integrated
in regulatory regimes of adjacent domains.
• Given a new energy, which Technical Standards should I
comply with?
• … how to compare with
adjacent domains?

7. PILOT 3: LABOUR LAW
Heterogeneous labor law across Europe
Spanish company opens new factory in Germany.
• What are the equivalent norms there?
• Which kind of protections should
my workers use?
• Are there any other norms
(no equivalent) I have to take
care?

8. LEGAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
European Directives
General legal goals for every
European Member State
National Legislation
Every Member State has
different national and
regional legislation in force
European Regulations
Legislative act binding in every
European Member State
Industry standards
Technical documents in
occasions necessary to
achieve certification
Case law
Judgements,
sentences

10. 10
Linked Open Data
(open knowledge graph)
LinkedIn Graph
Source: linkedin.com
Google Knowledge Graph
Source: blog.google.com
Microsoft
Academic Graph
Springer Knowledge Graph
Thomson Reuter’s
Knowledge Graph
Source: springer.com
Source: iswc 2018
Facebook Knowledge Graph
Source: iswc 2018
Source: permid.org

11. WHERE DOES LYNX LKG LIE?
Legal Information
Systems
Official Legal
Information Systems
European Directives
General legal goals for every
European Member State
National Legislation
Every Member State has
different national and
regional legislation in force
European Regulations
Legislative act binding in every
European Member State
Industry standards
Technical documents in
occasions necessary to
achieve certification
Case law
Judgements,
sentences
Rich information, private Plain information, public

12. Legal Information
Systems
Official Legal
Information
Systems
European Directives
General legal goals for every
European Member State
National Legislation
Every Member State has
different national and
regional legislation in force
European Regulations
Legislative act binding in every
European Member State
Industry standards
Technical documents in
occasions necessary to
achieve certification
Case law
Judgements,
sentences
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13. European Directives
General legal goals for every
European Member State
National Legislation
Every Member State has
different national and
regional legislation in force
European Regulations
Legislative act binding in every
European Member State
Industry standards
Technical documents in
occasions necessary to
achieve certification
Case law
Judgements,
sentences

14. MINIMAL META-MODEL

15. 0. EUROPEAN LEGISLATION
IDENTIFIER

16. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacted
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacted/data.rdf
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacted/data.akn
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(Metalex)
1. LEGISLATION UK

17. 2. OFFICIAL SPANISH GAZETTE

19. 2. GREEK LEGISLATION

21. 4. FINNISH LEGISLATION

23. INTEROPERABILITY CHALLENGES
1. We have to make n-transformations if we have n-sources
Beyond the scope of this project, we can at least demonstrate feasibility
1. We need to define a common model for legislation, case law,
doctrine, standards, etc.
Requirement “piece of structured text with metadata and
annotations”
How come nobody else did this before?

25. Thank you!

26. JURIX2019