The Finnish Law and Justice as a Linked Open Data Service

Work on this dataset is described in more detail on page Semantic Finlex: Finnish Law and Justice on the Semantic Web

Our goal is to create a 7-star linked open data service of Finnish legislation, a semantic version of Finlex. Based on the service, a next generation of public and commercial legal systems can be built. The work involves 1) juridical ontology development, 2) metadata modeling of legislative documents, 3) publication of the content as linked data, and 4) evaluation of the system via application demonstrators.

Metadata schemas

The following metadata schema specifications have been published as part of the LDF.fi service:

Datasets

Pilot datasets of statutes of Finnish legislation and court decisions are published in the LDF.fi service as Linked Data:
Semantic Finlex dataset page.

Examples in the dataset:

Criminal Code (URI: http://ldf.fi/finlex/laki/statute-sd18890039)
Supreme Court (URI: http://ldf.fi/finlex/oikeus/courtKKO)

The data is also available as data dump files and can be queried from a SPARQL endpoint in the LDF.fi service.

Articles

2017

Eero Hyvönen, Arttu Oksanen, Jouni Tuominen, Eetu Mäkelä and Minna Tamper: Semanttinen Finlex. Laki ja oikeus avoimena linkitettynä datana. (Semantic Finlex. Law and Justice as Linked Open Data.). Oikeus-lehti, vol. 46, no. 1, March, 2017. bib pdf

2014

Matias Frosterus, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: Facilitating Re-use of Legal Data in Applications--Finnish Law as a Linked Open Data Service. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2014), IOS Press, Krakow, Poland, December, 2014. bib pdf

2013

Contact persons:

Jouni Tuominen
Aalto University
firstname.lastname@aalto.fi

Matias Frosterus
Aalto University
firstname.lastname@aalto.fi

Prof. Eero Hyvönen
Aalto University, and University of Helsinki
eero.hyvonen [at] aalto.fi