Yandex as a replacement for the Guarantor
Most of us at least once faced with such a phenomenon as legal reference systems. Everyone has heard such names as "Garant" and "Consultant Plus"; lawyers can still recall Codex, Referent and some others.
The need for information contained in such a system (laws, by-laws, court practice) may arise from anyone. At the same time, legal reference systems, by virtue of their cost, are not available to everyone.
It is logical to ask - for what, actually, we pay?
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It is clear that not for the information itself, because all regulations, as well as orders of courts of all levels, are open. Moreover, the regulations before their publication can not enter into force.
Then, probably, we pay for the search tools in the array of legal information, i.e. for the shell program.
This is where the main question arises - why should we be tied to the proposed software?
After all, there are other search tools - for example, Google, Yandex, etc. If all the legal information will be posted on official websites, rather than published in individual (including limited edition) publications, search engines will be able to replace commercial reference legal systems.
Publication of all legal acts on the Internet, firstly, will fully allow to realize the idea of openness and accessibility of legal information and, secondly, will not require, in practice, any significant financial investments on a national scale.
Moreover, if a special markup language for legal documents is developed and introduced as a mandatory standard for all state and municipal bodies (for example, tags indicate the name of the document, the receiving authority, the date of adoption, etc., i.e. which are search criteria in help systems), it will be possible to practically completely do without commercial help systems, since search engines (with a slight refinement of functionality) will be able to accumulate at home (what they are already doing with publicly available sources) and process any legal information. ( By the way, the development of such a language is already underway. This is, for example, LegalXML , developed under the auspices of such a well-known organization like OASIS ).
Thus, there are no serious obstacles for a technical or financial plan to ensure that every person who has access to the Internet also gets full access to the whole array of legal information (together with advanced search tools) does not exist. The problem is only in making appropriate organizational decisions at the official level.
Companies that earn serious money on the status quo are unlikely to initiate any changes. But such initiatives can be lobbied by no less serious search companies (Yandex, Rambler, Google, etc.). And our task is to push them to this (to which the actual post was dedicated) :)
The need for information contained in such a system (laws, by-laws, court practice) may arise from anyone. At the same time, legal reference systems, by virtue of their cost, are not available to everyone.
It is logical to ask - for what, actually, we pay?
')
It is clear that not for the information itself, because all regulations, as well as orders of courts of all levels, are open. Moreover, the regulations before their publication can not enter into force.
Then, probably, we pay for the search tools in the array of legal information, i.e. for the shell program.
This is where the main question arises - why should we be tied to the proposed software?
After all, there are other search tools - for example, Google, Yandex, etc. If all the legal information will be posted on official websites, rather than published in individual (including limited edition) publications, search engines will be able to replace commercial reference legal systems.
Publication of all legal acts on the Internet, firstly, will fully allow to realize the idea of openness and accessibility of legal information and, secondly, will not require, in practice, any significant financial investments on a national scale.
Moreover, if a special markup language for legal documents is developed and introduced as a mandatory standard for all state and municipal bodies (for example, tags indicate the name of the document, the receiving authority, the date of adoption, etc., i.e. which are search criteria in help systems), it will be possible to practically completely do without commercial help systems, since search engines (with a slight refinement of functionality) will be able to accumulate at home (what they are already doing with publicly available sources) and process any legal information. ( By the way, the development of such a language is already underway. This is, for example, LegalXML , developed under the auspices of such a well-known organization like OASIS ).
Thus, there are no serious obstacles for a technical or financial plan to ensure that every person who has access to the Internet also gets full access to the whole array of legal information (together with advanced search tools) does not exist. The problem is only in making appropriate organizational decisions at the official level.
Companies that earn serious money on the status quo are unlikely to initiate any changes. But such initiatives can be lobbied by no less serious search companies (Yandex, Rambler, Google, etc.). And our task is to push them to this (to which the actual post was dedicated) :)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16990/
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