Legal Atlas v0.11a
August 11th, 2006
Legal Atlas is a tool for viewing both spatial regulations and the associated geospatial information in the form of maps. It is a showcase of how MetaLex integration with existing standards, such as GML and OWL, can result in robust and feature-rich knowledge management solutions. Please read the included license.
Legal Atlas is being developed within the project Digitale Uitwisseling Ruimtelijke Plannen (DURP; digital exchange of spatial plans), initiated by the Dutch government. Legal Atlas enables dynamic references between spatial regulations (encoded in MetaLex format) and the associated geospatial information. This information is encoded using IMRO2006, the Dutch government standard for XML exchange of spatial plans. It is compatible with GML 3.1.
References between texts and plans are resolved via SPARQL queries on OWL models of both the regulation and the relevant geospatial information. These models are included in the distribution.
The current 0.11a version is in alpha stage, has severely limited functionality, has not been extensively tested, and is still under heavy development. Please read the user guide provided below. Legal Atlas has been tested to work under Windows XP and Java 1.5. Older versions of Java will probably cause problems. Legal Atlas is an open source application, and depends on the OpenJUMP GIS application (licensed under GPL), and the Jena SemanticWeb framework.
Please visit the LegalAtlas download repository at http://draco.leibnizcenter.org/relay (login: public, pass: public)
3 Comments Add your own
1. Leibniz Center for Law &r&hellip | August 11th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
[…] The Legal Atlas v0.11 application is a showcase of how MetaLex integration with existing standards, such as GML and OWL, can result in robust and feature-rich knowledge management solutions. […]
2. Leibniz Center for Law &r&hellip | August 11th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
[…] For more information, please visit the MetaLex website: http://www.metalex.eu/general/legal-atlas-v011a. […]
3. Rinke Hoekstra » Ne&hellip | October 25th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
[…] We are now in the final stages of releasing the next version of LegalAtlas. That is, the programming work has been done, and technical documents are being polished. LegalAtlas is a tool that allows simultaneous viewing of spatial plans (or any other kind of map) and the regulations that govern specific parts of the map. It’s actually really cool to see semantic web technology come to life: it’s built on RDF/OWL and SPARQL queries. We have plenty of other ideas to extend this nifty technology, such as porting the whole thing to the Eclipse SWT plugin framework, combining it with Vex (a Wysywig XML editor) to write MetaLex documents, and using an RDF datastore as backend (such as Sesame). Integrating this with ontology tools such as TopBraid Composer or Protege will result in a really powerful semantic web workbench for legislative drafters, legal knowledge engineers etc. […]
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