CURIA II

European Court case law on CD-ROM- AfterCare

URL: http://www.dixite.com/references/curia-II/

Website: http://curia.eu.int/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en

Clients: Joh. Enschede/ Van Muysewinkel

Categories: AfterCare

Business Challenge

CURIA is the name of the European Court of Justice website. OPOCE is the Office for the Official Publications of the European Union.

Business Objectives

For the Court of Jutice/OPOCE, Dixite developped an Open Source based indexation and search engine for the publication of incremental monthly case laws publications on CD-ROM. The Court of Justice requested the addition of a number of user-centric functionalities in order to:

  • integrate PDF file format within the CD-ROM;
  • develop a powerfull syntax for plain text researches;
  • keywords highlight and navigation mechanisms;
  • add functionalities in order to improve user experience with the CD-ROM;

Technical Goals

  • ensure that full-year documents and application will fit within a single CD-ROM;
  • define and implement a powerfull search syntax;
  • ensure search results exactitude;
  • ensure support by most off-the-shelf browsers.

Solutions Applied

Dixite performed AfterCare services for the CURIA change requests.

Within a revised version of the URD, Dixite collected the new technical system requirements and defined a complete search syntax using EBNF. All the development cycle was performed using RUP.

Methodologies

Technologies

  • XML
  • Java