OpenLaws.eu: Improving access to legal information in the European Union | Legal Informatics Blog

"OpenLaws.eu is a new project aimed at improving access to legal information in the European Union. In 2013 the project received funding from European Commission (DG Justice). According to the project’s Website, the project lasts for two years and begins in April 2014. The project has a Twitter account — @OpenLaws — and a Facebook page. Here is a description of the project, from the grant announcement: 'Our vision is to provide open and easy access to legal information for everybody: Legal professionals, citizens and businesses. For this purpose we will link legal content (legislation and case law based on open data), provide meta search functionalities, offer productivity tools (setting favorites, highlighting, tagging, etc), and run an open access journal. We are following an open innovation strategy, so everybody will be invited to contribute.'  The project has already made available legal meta-search tools for the European Union and Austria. The meta-search tools use Fabian Vogler’s Open Law Search technology (see source code on GitHub), developed at the Law Mining Hackathon at OKCon 2013 ..."