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Complexity is a major theme in various ields, including the representation of complex systems by computer systems. Do documents and metadata in EUR-Lex correspond to the deinition of complex systems? how should legal complexity be represented? how can legal information be modelled? Is not one of the challenges of legal information systems to present legal complexity in an understandable way? to recognise the complexity of law is not an action against simpliication, which indeed is necessary in all its features (consolidation, codiication, reducing the administrative burden, etc.). the complexity of law is basically linked to the complexity of life and new factors making it even more complex appear every day! we didn’t need so many regulations on media 30 years ago! making models of legal information can also help in understanding the evolution of the law. One of the ways of modelling lies in the paradigm of networks. A project analysing 26 000 decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and mapping them in the network in which they exist through their mutual quotation shows which were the most important concerns of the Court independently of the issue of the case itself. It showed, for example, that after the Second world war the most important decisions and the most important quotations were on freedom of speech. Such models give totally objective information on the content of court decisions, free from the human appreciation of analysts and academics. this means, inally, that the EUR-Lex content is not only at the disposal of researchers to contribute to the long-term evolution of the information system, but also for various interpretations. Legal research could discover a new dimension. 01_2007_5222_txt_ML.indd 58 6-12-2007 15:13:39
DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND LEGAL INFORMATION Speaking in the framework of celebrating ‘25 years of EU law online’ offers a most welcome opportunity to highlight some aspects of the daily work of the EUR-Lex team that one might consider of some importance, in particular for the end-users of EUR-Lex. first, some emphasis will be laid on the system’s capacity to produce, in response to a query, a well-deined set of documents, which is to be distinguished from the rather simple search for only one particular reference. Second, the multilingual nature of the system will be further elaborated on. Presenting how the Eurovoc thesaurus and the classiication of the ‘Directory of Community legislation in force’ can support the user in bridging the shortcomings that a search for a natural language term in the full text of a document can provide is of even more interest with regard to the multilingual context of EUR-Lex. MICHAEL DÜRO Documentalist in the EUR-Lex unit of the Publications Office 1. SEARCh OPtIONS: A RESULtS PERSPECtIVE It is, on this occasion, hardly possible to deliver the full picture of EUR- Lex’s simple and advanced search options. the perspective chosen for this presentation rather is to focus on two aspects by introducing two practical examples. 1.1. Search options for a single document the irst sample query illustrates the search for one, and only one, document. the search for one single document is most conveniently performed by using a unique identiier as search criterion. As such a means of unique identiication, the EUR-Lex simple search offers the searches by document number or by publication reference. the heading ‘Search by document number’ covers the ‘natural number’ of documents, e.g. a regulation or a COm document, together with the year. the same criteria can be applied to a search for ‘consolidated texts’ under the same heading. 58 | 59 01_2007_5222_txt_ML.indd 59 6-12-2007 15:13:39
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Complexity is a major theme in various ields, including the representation<br />
of complex systems by computer systems. Do documents and metadata in<br />
EUR-Lex correspond to the deinition of complex systems? how should legal<br />
complexity be represented? how can legal information be modelled? Is not<br />
one of the challenges of legal information systems to present legal complexity<br />
in an understandable way? to recognise the complexity of law is not an action<br />
against simpliication, which indeed is necessary in all its features (consolidation,<br />
codiication, reducing the administrative burden, etc.). the complexity of<br />
law is basically linked to the complexity of life and new factors making it even<br />
more complex appear every day! we didn’t need so many regulations on<br />
media 30 years ago!<br />
making models of legal information can also help in understanding the<br />
evolution of the law. One of the ways of modelling lies in the paradigm of<br />
networks.<br />
A project analysing 26 000 decisions of the Supreme Court of the United<br />
States and mapping them in the network in which they exist through their<br />
mutual quotation shows which were the most important concerns of the<br />
Court independently of the issue of the case itself. It showed, for example, that<br />
after the Second world war the most important decisions and the most important<br />
quotations were on freedom of speech. Such models give totally objective<br />
information on the content of court decisions, free from the human appreciation<br />
of analysts and academics.<br />
this means, inally, that the EUR-Lex content is not only at the disposal of<br />
researchers to contribute to the long-term evolution of the information system,<br />
but also for various interpretations. Legal research could discover a new dimension.<br />
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