project:case_law_as_a_service_claas

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There are lots of court cases around that are not easily accessible. We should create an infrastructure to facilitate spreading of cases and assoiciated metadata. CLaaS Case Law as a Service is an approach to give any kind of applications easy access to case law. CLaaS is at the sampe time an API for accessing cases, a software to manage cases and a universe with Appstore to manage a basic application with added views and features on top of it. CLaaS will integrate into social media to include comments, preferences, remommandations, personal collections and social ranking.

Collecting a large number of cases will however make it even more difficult to find the right cases. Currently most systems will present cases and list of cases in pure text format. The advantages of graphics (one image says more than one thousand words) are not used. What kind of visualizations can be useful:

1. Visualize one case: Cases are often long (10-30 pages or even more) and it is time consuming to identify rules and reasonings of the court. Cases can be annotaded with Icons and the reasoning can be displayed in a structured manner (Case matrix) (Christian and Franziska are preparing an example case preparation for that)

2. Visualize a list of cases: Hitlists and other lists of cases can be annotated with easily accessible information by icons indicating case outcome, type of case, type of reasoning, area/region of the court etc.

3. Visualize the connection between cases: Cases often cite each other. This can be displayed in graphs that also convey further information (metadata).

4. Geographic visualization of a large number of cases: When a search retrieves a large number of cases (1000 or more) it is impossible to even glimpse over this list of cases. Facets help there but are not easily comprehensible because they just consist out of text and many numbers. A graphical visualization could help there. Oleg will present an interactive display of cases on a world or regional map together with a timeline. This display can also be animated to show how the searched topic evolved during time. We can imagine many other statistical presentations of the data.

Include links to your demo and/or source code.

* 5000 cases of the Swiss federal court

* access to Swisslex and sample data and metadata from Swisslex

* access to UN Human Rights Cases

* access to ECHR Cases

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