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Towards a Portal for Minority Rights in Europe

Johann Gamper and Paolo Dongilli

Abstract

We here present the ongoing research project MIRIS which for a very first time will offer an intelligent Web portal to all relevant information on minorities of all member states of the Council of Europe. MIRIS contains both legal documents as well as factual knowledge and provides a coherent presentation with powerful query capabilities including content-based search. We adopt a knowledge-based approach, heavily relying on the use of ontologies and metadata. An ontology will be used to annotate the documents with contents, to expand queries, and to provide different views on the information. Various possibilities to access the information system will be provided, from a focused search for specific information and documents up to the generation of reports to a certain topic. Current Web standards including XML and RDF will be applied.