Objective The primary business objective of the Estrella project is to develop and validate an open, standards-based platform allowing public administrations to develop and deploy comprehensive legal knowledge management solutions, without becoming dependent on proprietary products of particular vendors.Estrella will support, in an integrated way, both legal document management and legal knowledge-based systems, to provide a complete solution for improving the quality and efficiency of the determinative processes of public administration requiring the application of complex legislation and other legal sources. Estrella will facilitate a market of interoperable components for legal knowledge-based systems, allowing public administrations and other users to freely choose among competing development environments, inference engines, and other tools.The main technical objectives of the Estrella project are to develop a Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF), building upon emerging XML-based standards of the Semantic Web, including RDF and OWL, and Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) for interacting with legal knowledge-based systems. To achieve and demonstrate vendor neutrality and independence, translators between the LKIF format and the existing proprietary formats of LKBS vendors participating in the project will be developed.To demonstrate and validate the Estrella platform, European tax related legislation and national tax legislation of two European countries will be modelled and used in the pilot applications. The finance ministries or tax administrations of several other European countries will take part in an Observatory Board to ensure generality of the approach. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligenceexpert systemssocial sciencessociologygovernancetaxationnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetsemantic websocial sciencespolitical sciencespublic administration Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.9 - ICT Research for Innovative Government Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM EU contribution No data Address SPUI 21 Postbus 19268 AMSTERDAM Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (14) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ADO- ES PENZUGYI ELLENORZESI HIVATAL Hungary EU contribution No data Address V. SZECHENYI U. 2 1054 BUDAPEST See on map Total cost No data ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Zamboni 33 BOLOGNA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BUDAPESTI CORVINUS EGYETEM Hungary EU contribution No data Address Fovam Ter 8 BUDAPEST See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BUNDESMINISTERIUM DER FINANZEN Germany EU contribution No data Address WILHELMSTRASSE 97 10117 BERLIN See on map Total cost No data CONSORZIO PISA RICERCHE SCARL Italy EU contribution No data Address Corso Italia 116 PISA See on map Total cost No data FRAUNHOFER IAF Germany EU contribution No data Address Tullastr. 72 79108 MÜNCHEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INTER.ACTION DESIGN LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address 6-8 UNDERWOOD STREET N1 7JQ LONDON See on map Total cost No data KNOWLEDGETOOLS INTERNATIONAL GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address WALLSTRASSE 15 10179 BERLIN See on map Total cost No data MINISTERO DELL'ECONOMIA E DELLE FINANZE Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA XX SETTEMBRE 97 00187 ROMA See on map Total cost No data MINISTRO PER LE RIFORME E LE INNOVAZIONI NELLA PUBBLICA AMMINISTRAZIONE Italy EU contribution No data Address CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE, 116 00186 ROMA See on map Total cost No data RULEBURST (EUROPE) LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address KENNET HOUSE 80 KINGS ROAD RG1 3BL READING-BERKSHIRE See on map Total cost No data RULEWISE B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address WINTHONTLAAN 186 3526 KV UTRECHT See on map Total cost No data SOGEI - SOCIETA GENERALE D'INFORMATICA S.P.A. Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA MARIO CARUCCI 99 00143 ROMA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address BROWNLOW HILL 765 L69 7ZX LIVERPOOL See on map Total cost No data