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MEETING <strong>OF</strong> THE COUNCIL WORKING PARTY<br />

ON LEGAL DATA PROCESSING<br />

But its hierarchical set-up also provides for convenient browsing and navigation<br />

through the different levels of headings and the underlying subheadings.<br />

Again, the advanced search adds a convenient feature: the selected<br />

application of truncation symbols allows for the exploitation of the directory<br />

code to search for horizontal criteria relected in the classiication.<br />

On the second hierarchy level, i.e. in the numerical system represented by<br />

digits three and four, the combination ‘07’ represents the horizontal criterion<br />

of ‘statistics’. Consequently, under each of the 20 headings that provide acts<br />

on statistics, those references are gathered, inter alia, under this particular subheading.<br />

the query [CC=0?07+ OR CC=1?07+ OR CC=2007+] produces a list of<br />

all documents (in Sectors 2, 3, 4, and 5) presumably dealing with statistics that<br />

are available in the database. for the time being the query resulted in 1 269<br />

hits, the retrieving of which would be almost impossible without the exploitation<br />

of the classiication of the ‘Directory of Community legislation in force’.<br />

SUmmARy AND CONCLUSION<br />

this presentation aimed irst at giving an overview of the EUR-Lex search<br />

options allowing the retrieval of one single document. the next step, introducing<br />

a irst practical example, was to combine the results of three queries using<br />

the CELEX number via the search history of the simple search to produce a<br />

well-deined set of documents as a result. Leaving the simple search and moving<br />

on to the advanced search then allowed for the combination<br />

of any of the ields available in the database.<br />

the second example came with a comparably complex<br />

query and exploited a ield that cannot be addressed<br />

by any simple search option (e.g. the ield containing information<br />

on the legal basis). for those further interested<br />

in exploiting the additional functions and various search<br />

options the advanced search offers, the ‘Visual quick<br />

start guide: advanced search’ is recommended reading.<br />

In the second part of the presentation, examples were used to demonstrate<br />

how the Eurovoc thesaurus and the classiication of the ‘Directory of Community<br />

legislation in force’ can support the user in retrieving better results and<br />

going beyond the rather weak searching for natural language search terms.<br />

Due to the multilingual character of EUR-Lex, the two instruments offer even<br />

more value to the system.<br />

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01_2007_5222_txt_ML.indd 65 6-12-2007 15:13:42

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