DOI: 10.38023/bf44ffb5-7a03-4334-a26b-8a6a902c4115

From legal texts to digitized services for public administrations

Sarah T. Bachinger

Philipp Bornheimer

Stephan Breidenbach

Daniela Ehrhardt

Leila Feddoul

Hannes Legner

Felicitas Löffler

Frank Löffler

Maximilian Raupach

Sirko Schindler

Jörg Schröder

Birgitta König-Ries

Marianne Mauch

Citation: Felicitas Löffler / Frank Löffler / Daniela Ehrhardt / Leila Feddoul / Hannes Legner / Maximilian Raupach / Sirko Schindler / Jörg Schröder / Birgitta König-Ries / Marianne Mauch / Sarah T. Bachinger / Philipp Bornheimer / Stephan Breidenbach, From legal texts to digitized services for public administrations, in: Jusletter IT 15 February 2024

For the end-to-end digitization of the German public administration, there is a lack of detailed, interoperable descriptions of legal regulations, existing standards, and specific requirements. Yet, they are needed by small companies, decision-makers, administrative staff, and future citizen developers to create fully digitized public services with No-Code/Low-Code platforms and to keep them semi-automatically up to date with changing legal texts. We describe how formal descriptions of processes, data fields, decisions are derived from analyzing legal texts for the service to be digitized and are supplemented by semantic annotations and links to standards, creating innovative services.

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Background and Related Work
- 2.1. From legal norms to formal descriptions
- 2.2. From formal descriptions to digitized services.
- 2.3. Semantic description of knowledge in public administration
3. Approach
- 3.1. From legal norms to formal descriptions
- 3.2. From formal descriptions to digitized services
- 3.3. Knowledge linking and sharing to foster transparency and traceability
4. Preliminary Results
- 4.1. From legal norms to formal descriptions
- 4.2. From formal descriptions to digitized services
- 4.3. Knowledge linking and sharing.
5. Conclusion & Vision
6. Acknowledgements