Cellar: Semantic Database of EU Law, presentation by the Publications Office. This presentation was part of the Diplohack Brussels Data Market on 29-30 April 2016.

1. Cellar: semantic DB of EU Law
fulgencio.sanmartin@publications.europa.eu
Publications Office
Bruxelles, 29.04.2015

2. http://publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql
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3. List of countries
http://publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql
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4. prefix cdm: <http://publications.europa.eu/ontology/cdm#>
prefix eurovoc: <http://eurovoc.europa.eu/schema#>
prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
SELECT ?country_name ?law ?year
WHERE {
?code a eurovoc:Country .
?code skos:prefLabel ?country_name .
FILTER(LANGMATCHES(LANG(?country_name), "en")) .
?law cdm:work_is_about_concept_eurovoc ?code .
?law cdm:resource_legal_year ?year .
?code skos:inScheme <http://eurovoc.europa.eu/100280> .
}
ORDER BY asc( ?country_name ) desc( ?year )
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List of African countries and related EU laws per year
SPARQL query

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List of African countries and related EU laws per year
(results in csv, json, turtle…)
country_name,"num_of_laws","year"
Algeria,3,2015-01-01
Algeria,11,2014-01-01
Algeria,15,2013-01-01
Algeria,18,2012-01-01
Algeria,34,2011-01-01
Algeria,15,2010-01-01
Algeria,2,2009-01-01
Algeria,3,2008-01-01
Algeria,12,2007-01-01
Algeria,6,2006-01-01
Algeria,13,2005-01-01
Algeria,6,2004-01-01

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List of African countries and related EU laws per year
csv in CartoDB

7. Cellar: semantic DB of EU Law
 1.5 billion triples { subject property object }
 Ontology (structure of DB):
<http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/resource/cdm/>
 Authority tables in 24 languages: currencies, places,
corporate bodies…
<http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/index.html>
 Cellar REST API reference:
<http://publications.europa.eu/en/web/access-reuse-
conference/reuse-workshop>
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8. Cellar: semantic DB of EU Law
fulgencio.sanmartin@publications.europa.eu
Publications Office
Bruxelles, 29.04.2015