From 12 July 2012, two thesauri (controlled vocabularies) covering juridical/legal topics are provided for free re-use as Linked Open Data: Onethesaurus is covering topics around labor law in German language, while the other one describes German and European courts. Both vocabularies can be accessed at: vocabulary.wolterskluwer.de/.
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It will be interesting to see how this works out. Legal terms are notoriously jurisdiction-dependent. Those working in an EU context will no doubt welcome such a development but outside the EU? Wolters Kluwer are to be congratulated nevertheless. Let’s have more like this!