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Austria's Legal information System (RIS) in View of the R4eGov Project Results

  • Authors: Brigitte Barotanyi / Harald Hoffmann / Leszek Kotsch
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Austria
  • Field of law: Legal Informatics, Legal Information
  • Citation: Brigitte Barotanyi / Harald Hoffmann / Leszek Kotsch, Austria's Legal information System (RIS) in View of the R4eGov Project Results, in: Jusletter IT 11 September 2014
Austria's Legal Information System (RIS) was a pioneer in publishing legal information, the federal law in particular. It received prices like the United Nations Public Service Award 2007. What is lesser known is that up to 2009 RIS participated in two Framework 6 projects of the European Union, further enhancing RIS' capabilities, at least theoretically, as most of them have not been implemented yet. Most of these enhanced capabilities are state of the art. Other legal information systems already implement some (e.g. the EnAct system in Tasmania, JASPI in Slovakia, some Cantons in Switzerland), or are in the process of implementing them (e.g. the future federal KAV-System in Switzerland). To keep the avant-garde position of RIS would require the serious discussion of these enhanced capabilities, at least. This paper is written as an input document for this discussion.

Table of contents

  • 1. Glossary of terms and abbreviations
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. History of RIS
  • 3.1. The old days
  • 3.2. Authentic publication
  • 3.3. Categories
  • 4. Motivation
  • 4.1. Reasons to join the R4eGov Project
  • 4.2. Objectives to be reached
  • 5. Achievements
  • 5.1. Migration to XML
  • 5.2. Ex-post and ex-ante discussion
  • 5.3. Time slice discussion
  • 5.4. Authentic version discussion
  • 5.4.1. Do we need more than currently available?
  • 5.4.2. If we do, how to improve electronic authenticity?
  • 5.4.3. What else could we achieve?
  • 6. Future potential of current deployment
  • 6.1. Work-flow related issues
  • 6.2. Quality of legal documents
  • 6.3. Communication with third parties
  • 6.3.1. RIS input
  • 6.3.2. RIS output
  • 6.4. Standardisation
  • 6.4.1. CEN MetaLex
  • 6.4.2. Akoma Ntoso
  • 6.4.3. European Legislation Identifier (ELI)
  • 6.5. User interface
  • 6.5.1. The native RIS user interface
  • 6.5.2. Frontends augmenting the native RIS user interface
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 7.1. The R4eGov view
  • 7.2. The RIS internal view
  • 7.3. The RIS external view
  • 7.4. The last word
  • 8. Literatur

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