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This chapter addresses the technological and semantic interoperability aspects relevant to the European Civil Proceedings Online, in particular to the European Small Claims Procedure and the European Order for Payment Procedure. It starts by offering an overview of the background of Semantic Web Technologies and presenting the concept of Semantic Interoperability. Secondly, it reviews ontolo-gies as one of the most appropriate tools when it comes to addressing and solving a number of semantic issues, such as the existence of different legal terms and languages. Moreover, ontologies can be combined with other tools such as a XML mark-up language or a FAQ (Frequenly Asked Questions) list of terms. The chapter also identifies seven general semantic tools that can be relevant to solving some of the semantic issues identified so far. Finally, the chapter ends with some concluding remarks on semantic technologies and its role in assisting the parties of a process.
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See article 67 and ss. of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Consolidated version available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/treaties/index.htm (Last accessed 9 October 2012).
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Accessible at: http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/judicialatlascivil/html/la_fillingforms_fr_en.htm. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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https://covl.sodisce.si/. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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http://www.semic.eu/semic. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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http://ec.europa.eu/isa/index_en.htm. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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http://www.opengroup.org. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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See, e.g., Suárez-Figueroa et al. (2011) for an updated overview of languages, methodologies and tools.
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Stanford University, Protégé, available online at: http://protege.standford.edu. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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See the Semic glossary at http://www.semic.eu/semic/view/smeta/Glossary.xhtml. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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http://protege.stanford.edu. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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http://idt.uab.es. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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See http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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INTEGRA (Research on Technologies for Decision Making in Immigration Policies); CDTI-Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism, and Commerce, Contract 15/02/2008.
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Decision 2007/533/JAI of the Council, 12 June 2007, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:205:0063:01:EN:HTML. Regulation (CE) nº 1987/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 20 December 2006, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:381:0004:01:EN:HTML. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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Regulation (CE) nº 767/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council, 9 July 2008, on the Visa Information System (VIS) and the short term visa data sharing between member states (Regulation VIS) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:218:0060:01:EN:HTML. Decision of the Commission 2009/377/CE, 5 May 2009. Available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:117:0003:01:EN:HTML. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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Council Regulation (EC) No 2725/2000 of 11 December 2000, concerning the establishment of EURODAC for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of the Dublin Convention. Available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000R2725:EN:HTML. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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See the website of Europol at https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/page/about-europol-17. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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ONTOMEDIA (Semantic Web, Ontologies and Online Dispute Resolution); Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, CSO2008-005536/SOCI); ONTOMEDIA (Ontologies and Web Services for Online Mediation); Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce) TSI-020501-2008-131.
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IURISERVICE has been developed within the framework of different national and international research projects: SEKT (Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies); UE (VI Framework Program, Information Society Technologies); EU-IST 2003-506826; IURISERVICE I (design of an online network to support newly recruited judges); Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, FIT-150500-2002-562; IURISERVICE II (design of an online network to support newly recruited judges); Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology; FIT-150500-2003-198.
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Available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/judicialatlascivil//html/index_en.htm. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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Available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/judicialatlascivil//html/index_en.htm. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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Available at http://ec.europa.eu/civiljustice/glossary/glossary_en.htm. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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Accessible at http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/. Last accessed 9 October 2012.
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Poblet, M., Suquet, J., Roig, A., González-Conejero, J. (2014). Building Semantic Interoperability for European Civil Proceedings Online. In: Contini, F., Lanzara, G. (eds) The Circulation of Agency in E-Justice. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7525-1_12
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