L’Open data juridique | Laboratoire de cyberjustice

Google English: "The legal open data

We live in a connected world where phenomenal amounts of data circulate day and night across the globe. While Big Data is defined by its size, Open Data is characterized by its use, its openness, its intention to democratize information for the benefit of the world.

At the Université de Montréal's Cyberjustice Laboratory, a team of young researchers has decided - as part of a bilateral project between Quebec and Belgium - to create a blog to understand the impact that the transition can have on the law. digital. This first post will focus on the issue of Open Data Legal. Open data consists of making freely accessible digital data available to everyone on the Internet, so legal open data is the declination in the legal sector. We will therefore first see what this open data consists of, in a second time their use by the lawyers and finally, the problems related to this process of opening the data.

Recall on the Open data

According to the definition of the Office québécois de la langue française, open data is "non-nominal, royalty-free raw data produced or collected by a public or private body that is accessible to citizens over the Internet. Several countries, including Canada, have made it their mission to open up more data that can foster innovation, scientific advancement and the development of new knowledge and technologies...."