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Indexing and Legal Analysis · A case study

From OJ documents to connected and validated metadata.

AToM brings document metadata, controlled vocabularies, legal relationships and team tasks into one workspace. A controlled vocabulary is an agreed set of terms used to describe documents.

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Word cloud with terms such as Indexing, Analysis, metadata and legal elements.
Indexing and legal analysis — wordcloud illustration (by Roman).

One workspace for the whole workflow.

Analysts work with connected document records. Controlled vocabularies support consistent descriptions. Team tasks remain in the same environment as the information being processed.

An analyst task with the linked document and controlled vocabularies in one workspace.Click to enlargeTap to enlarge

An analyst task with the linked document and controlled vocabularies in one workspace.

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AToM analyst task with linked EU document header, CELEX number and controlled vocabularies such as EuroVoc, Directory Code and Subject Matter.

Efficient work. Automatic checks.

AToM supports efficient expert work. It also performs a range of automatic checks. Analysts still do the expert work.

  • The validity and consistency of recorded metadata.
  • The completeness of results.
  • The completeness of relationships with other documents.
Metadata recorded in AToM compared with the published EUR-Lex record: dates, legal basis and related documents.Click to enlargeTap to enlarge

Metadata recorded in AToM compared with the published EUR-Lex record: dates, legal basis and related documents.

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Metadata of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 in AToM next to the same document on EUR-Lex, with matching dates, legal basis and relationships highlighted.

Deliver changes to Cellar.

The workflow automatically delivers a change document to Cellar in RDF and XML notation. It validates completeness at both input and output.

Simplified illustration of the workflow

  1. Expert work in AToM
  2. Automatic checks
  3. Change document to Cellar
Illustration of the principle only. Expert decisions remain with the analysts.

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