[Open-Legislation] openlaws.eu EU Project starting today

[Eric Mill]

Thanks for sharing this, Clemens! I'm excited to see what your team ships.
I looked around the website but couldn't find a Github link anywhere. I'd
be all too happy to star your projects and file pull requests when you get
to work. :)

-- Eric


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Clemens Wass <clemens at wass.at> wrote:

> Dear Erik,
>
> what is your point?
>
> I understand that you get angry by reading the word Google. I agree that
> Google is NOT the solution. What we do is to provide a Google Custom Search
> for a few selected legal domains as a quick and - in your eyes VERY - dirty
> solution FOR THE BEGINNING. I would prefer to have a solar/lucene/nutch
> solution running by today that has built a huge index already. But this is
> day 2.
> I know many legal experts who are using Google because the search
> capabilities of the national database are not sufficient. They teach that
> even at university in legal research courses. Is your suggestion to take
> that search down immediately?
>
> Regarding licenses: Again, this is day 2. We have no software yet. We have
> not defined yet which tools we will use for building the platform. The
> software will be licensed accordingly under an open source license. I am
> sorry I cannot say more at the moment, but why do you doubt that?
>
> We are trying to build a system based on open source software, open
> innovation and open data. What is wrong with that?
>
> There has not a lot been going on on this mailing list since quite a while
> and I think this a positive signal for open legislation. I hope that there
> will be a productive discussion and all suggestions are highly welcome.
>
> So Eric, what are your suggestions?
>
> Best, Clemens
>
>
>
>
>
> 2014-04-02 21:17 GMT+02:00 JOSEFSSON Erik <
> erik.josefsson at europarl.europa.eu>:
>
>   Congratulations to a dead born baby*.
>>
>>
>>
>> There is no information **whatsoever** on the website on which licence
>> you release source code under, if at all.
>>
>>
>>
>> There is a confident reference to the Commission's "Open Innovation 2.0"
>> which according to its own website is " "a mash-up of ideas into action to
>> make things happen".
>>
>>
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>>
>>
>> //Erik
>>
>>
>>
>> * Please note that during our start-up phase we are currently using a
>> Google Custom Search engine for the meta search. As the project evolves, we
>> will integrate more "open" solutions.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* open-legislation [mailto:open-legislation-bounces at lists.okfn.org]
>> *On Behalf Of *Clemens Wass
>> *Sent:* 01 April 2014 15:10
>> *To:* open-legislation
>> *Subject:* [Open-Legislation] openlaws.eu EU Project starting today
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> today is the official starting date for the openlaws.eu project, an EU
>> Project funded by DG Justice.
>>
>>
>>
>> The project is about making legislation and case law more accessible for
>> citizens, businesses, legal experts and also public bodies and legal
>> publishers. The project is built on open data, open innovation principles
>> and open source software.
>>
>> The initial term for the project is 24 months. It was ranked #1 by DG
>> Justice, so expectations are certainly high! Hopefully we will see the
>> first results soon!
>>
>>
>>
>> Have a look at the openlaws.eu website for more details (www.openlaws.eu)
>> and follow the project on twitter (https://twitter.com/openlaws,
>> @openlaws). Comments and ideas are highly welcome!
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>>
>> Clemens
>>
>>
>>
>> PS: This is not an April Fools' Day joke - law IS finally opening up!
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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