The Importance of PSI
Florence: 30 & 31 October 2008
The presentations from the IX International Conference: Law via the Internet have been published. A number of the presentations are directly relevant to the re-use of Public Sector information as applied to the publication of law, court cases and other legal information.
The plenary presentations titled:
- Access to Legislation Online in the EU: From Fee-based to Free Information
- The Evolving Ecology of Legal Information Market
stress the importance of Public Sector Information and provide good examples with respect to the implementation of the EU Directive 2003/98/EC.
The topics covered by the Conference papers included:
- Free access to law: the situation in different geographic areas
- Legal aspects concerning management, creation and filing of digital information
- Legal blogs and wikis
- Open legal archives
- Quality of legal information available on the web
- Right to legal information as a fundamental right
- Semantic tools for the access to legal information
- Information technology used in the process of creating rules
- Open source in the field of law
- Computerization of justice
- Recent developments and trends in online legislation, case law and doctrine
- Development of open technical standards
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