====== Swiss Supreme Court ======

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In this project we are developing an open search engine by keywords and law articles for the website of the [[http://www.bger.ch/fr/index/juridiction/jurisdiction-inherit-template/jurisdiction-recht/jurisdiction-recht-leitentscheide1954.htm|Swiss Supreme Court]]. Currently, the Swiss Supreme Court website search is powered by [[http://www.swisslex.ch|Swisslex]], which charges fees for efficient jurisprudential research. Searching their website with Google is a free alternative, however this type of search is too generic and broad.

Based on data of the [[http://www.bger.ch/|Swiss Federal Supreme Court]], Alexander has built an online case history crawler, the demo of which can be accessed here: 

http://yacy.free-it-foundation.org:8090/

(Note, we are currently struggling to keep the service up due to hardware issues. Please click on screenshots above if the page is down.)

=== Hackathon goals ===

Since jurisprudence is supposed to be known by everybody, an efficient search engine is a mandatory tool for democracy and goes along with the open data philosophy. The goals of the [[event:2013-09|LegalHack@OKCon 2013]] challenge for this project were to:

  - Enable the use of search by filters
  - Implement search by law articles
  - Implement search by keywords       

===== Data =====

  * The website of the Supreme Court is here: http://www.bger.ch/

===== Team =====

  * Florian Ducommun, Creative Commons Switzerland
  * Alexandre Poltorak, Free IT Foundation

===== Links =====

  * [[http://www.yacy-websearch.net/wiki/index.php/En:Start|YaCy Search Engine]]
  
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