ManyLaws provides legal information services for citizens, businesses, and public administrations. It aims to make legal information more accessible through parallel searches of EU member state laws, comparative analyses of laws, and timelines showing legal changes. The system architecture includes services for translation, delivery, identification, signatures, invoicing, and archiving of legal documents. It will initially support Greek, German, and English languages with plans to expand coverage to more EU countries over time.

1. ManyLaws - Legal Informatics Services towards
Administrations, Businesses and Citizens
https://www.manylaws.eu/
CEF-TC-2017-3 - Public Open Data
Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou, sofia.tsekeridou@intrasoft-intl.com
INTRASOFT International S.A.

2. INTRASOFT International S.A.
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INTRASOFT INTERNATIONAL S.A.
A leadingEuropeanITSolutions&Servicescompany.
Establishedin1996 inLuxembourg, operationsin19countries.
OutstandingrecordofprovidingIT solutionsto Governments,PublicOrganizationsand

3. Over 20 years of successful R&D projects implementation and…
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team-leading EC co-funded R&D
practices:
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ManyLaws
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5. Fragmented legal information
Absence of legal data in the European Data Portal
(https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/homepage)
Better use of public open data
Better services for citizens and public administrations
Real-life applicability of the use of high-performance computing (HPC) to analyse and exploit large
and complex public datasets
Challenges - Opportunities

6. To build the proper environment and vision of semantically annotated Big Open Legal Data
(BOLD), easily searchable and exploitable with advanced visualization techniques
To provide the technical foundation and the tools for making legal information available to
everybody, in a customizable, structured and easy to handle way
To deliver a set of key trans-European services that facilitate seamless and ubiquitous access to
legal data for citizens, businesses and administrations
Languages to address (by end of project): Greek, Austrian/German, English
Objectives

7. Conceptual Model

8. High Level Architecture

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System Architecture

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eTranslation: intended for integration into other digital services, making them multilingual, but can also be used as a
stand-alone service.
eDelivery: faciltitates the exchange of electronic data and documents between public administrations and businesses in
an interoperable, secure, reliable and trusted way.
eID: helps public administrations and private Service Providers to extend the use of their online services to citizens from
other European countries; through the mutual recognition of national electronic identification (eID) schemes.
eSignature: facilitates the mutual recognition and cross-border interoperability of eSignatures between public
administrations and businesses within Member States.
eInvoicing: helps public administrations to comply with EU eInvoicing legislation and assists solution providers in adapting
their services accordingly.
eArchiving: resolves the challenges of short, medium and long-term data management and reuse in a sustainable,
authentic, cost-efficient, manageable and interoperable way.
CEF Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs)

11. Target Groups Target Countries
Citizens
Lawyers
Businesses
Public Administrators
Scientific Community
Greece (Greek)
Austria (Austrian/German)
Europe (English)

12. 1. Parallel search in many EU member-state legal frameworks (through parallel translation of search terms),
using simple keywords
Services (backend and frontend)
8. Decision Support Services (e.g. Impact Assessment) within legal procedures
2. Assessment of the degree of transposition of an EU Directive in a National Legal Framework,
indicating relevant national legislation and monitoring the status of transpositions
3. Analysis of references to the European Legislation by National Laws
4. Comparative analysis of equivalent or relevant laws from different EU member states or connected laws
from the same member state
5. Timeline analysis for all legal elements, visualising the progress and current status of a specific
national or European legislation (after amendment/extensions) over time
6. Interrelation of laws and news or social media posts, including sentiment analysis
7. Various geo-related visualisations (e.g. EU maps indicating different parameters) and text-related
visualisations (e.g. sentiment graphs, interrelation maps, etc.) to illustrate correlations, dependencies
and conflicts between different laws

13. ● Keyword search
● List of results
● Analysis & Visualisations
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ManyLaws Services flowchart

14. ● Search is available for all users
(registered or not)
● Enter keywords, optionally select
country and press Go
● If more than one country is selected
the search spans across more than
one legal frameworks
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Search

15. On the results list the user can:
● Navigate to any result
● Select two or more (up to 6) results to
access the comparison or timeline
analysis services
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Search Results

16. ● Text comparison is taking place only
between two laws by highlighting
common terms
● The user selects from dropdown menu
desirable laws for comparison.
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Compare Results - Text Comparison Visualisation

17. Chart visualisation presenting the evolution
of different laws normalized under the same
time-axis
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Multiple Laws Timeline Analysis

18. By selecting a result from the list the user can:
1. View dataset details
2. View related files to the dataset
3. Select any available visualization service:
1. Visualisation of the connection
between a national law and an EU
directive.
2. Comparative analysis of
connected/related laws from the
same national legal frame. (Graph
or Text comparison)
3. Timeline visualisation of a law
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Selected Result

19. Visualise the way that a national law is
connected to an EU directive
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3.1 Visualisation of the connection between a national law and an EU directive

20. ● The system finds connected laws from
the same member state based on
keywords
● The left side holds the initial selected
law.
● The right side holds all connected
laws on a combobox, so user can
select one for text comparison.
(highlight text)
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3.2 Comparative analysis of connected laws from the same member state (Text)

21. Visualise the way that a national laws from
the same member state are connected
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3.2 Comparative analysis of connected laws from the same member state (Graph)

22. Timeline visualization for changes of a law
within time
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3.3 Timeline Visualization

23. ● The login is not mandatory to access
ManyLaws services
● Registered users can access their
search history through a personalised
dashboard
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Login

24. User can see previous searches on
descending order. By pressing on any
keyword user navigates to the respective
search results page
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User Dashboard

25. On results list user can:
1. Drilldown to any result
2. Select two or more (up to 6) results for
comparison or timeline analysis
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User Dashboard - Search

26. EUR-Lex: Access to European Union Law
Database that provides free access, in all 24 official EU languages, European Union legal texts.
Each document is displayed with analytical metadata (publication reference, dates, keywords,
etc.) organised behind different tabs. Current functionality allows for a document to be displayed
in up to 3 languages simultaneously.
 N-LEX (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/) : access to national legal databases
NOMOS
Legal information retrieval system in the Greek language developed by INTRASOFT
International; based on a comprehensive database of Greek legal texts, EU law in Greek, major
jurisprudence of Greek courts, articles from legal journals and their summaries, and relevant ECJ
case law.
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Existing Legal Databases

27. EUTHORITY
Investigates patterns of
conflict and cooperation
between domestic and
supranational courts in
the European Union legal
system
Openlaws
Helps users (citizens,
business users and legal
experts ) to find legal
information easily
EUCases
Developed a unique pan-
European law and case
law Linking Platform
ONE-LEX
Provides principled
support to the
informational-unification
of the European laws
1 2 3 4
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MIREL
This is an ongoing project
that will create an
international and inter-
sectorial network for
mining and reasoning
with Legal texts
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Similar Projects

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COMPARISON
EUTHORITY OPENLAWS EUCASES ONE-LEX MIREL ManyLaws
Simple Search ✓ ✓ ✓
User Dashboard ✓ ✓
Comparative
analysis of
connected/related
laws
from the same
national legal frame
✓ ✓
NLP/Text mining
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Metadata -
Ontologies
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Other
features/functions
- Visualization of
the relationship
between Intra
EU-trade and the
number of
preliminary
references over
the past half-
century
- EULinksChecker
Add-in Tools for
Microsoft Word,
Open Office
Writer, Internet
Explorer, Mozilla
Firefox and Google
Chrome
- Visualization of the comparison between chosen laws
from same national legislation
- Parallel Search (Multilingual)
- Connection national law and EU directive
- Visualization of the comparison between laws from
different national legal frames
- Timeline visualization of a law
- Timeline visualization of multiple laws
- Visualization of the comparison between laws from
different national legal frames

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