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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Modeling and Querying Greek Legislation Using Semantic Web Technologies

Authors : Ilias Chalkidis, Charalampos Nikolaou, Panagiotis Soursos, Manolis Koubarakis

Published in: The Semantic Web

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Abstract

In this work, we study how legislation can be published as open data using semantic web technologies. We focus on Greek legislation and show how it can be modeled using ontologies expressed in OWL and RDF, and queried using SPARQL. To demonstrate the applicability and usefulness of our approach, we develop a web application, called Nomothesia, which makes Greek legislation easily accessible to the public. Nomothesia offers advanced services for retrieving and querying Greek legislation and is intended for citizens through intuitive presentational views and search interfaces, but also for application developers that would like to consume content through two web services: a SPARQL endpoint and a RESTful API. Opening up legislation in this way is a great leap towards making governments accountable to citizens and increasing transparency.

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Metadata
Title
Modeling and Querying Greek Legislation Using Semantic Web Technologies
Authors
Ilias Chalkidis
Charalampos Nikolaou
Panagiotis Soursos
Manolis Koubarakis
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Semantic Web

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-58067-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-58068-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58068-5_36