⚠ This library mostly superseded by Rechtspraak.js and no longer actively maintained

It may still be of use for XSD files and Java bindings to the Rechtspraak.nl API

Rechtspraak.nl library

A Java interface to the judgment database of rechtspraak.nl.

Documentation

This project is part of my master's thesis in Artificial Intelligence. A HTML copy of my thesis is available at here.

Usage

Download the latest JAR or grab from Maven:

<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.leibnizcenter</groupId>
            <artifactId>rechtspraak</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.4</version>
        </dependency>
</dependencies>

or Gradle:

compile 'org.leibnizcenter:rechtspraak:2.0.4'

You can access the Rechtspraak.nl search API through org.leibnizcenter.rechtspraak.SearchRequest.Builder and org.leibnizcenter.rechtspraak.SearchResult. All builder options are optional. For instance:

        SearchResult iterator = new SearchRequest.Builder()
                .max(1000) // Results per page. Cannot be larger than and defaults to 1000
                .returnType(ReturnType.DOC) // Return documents for which Rechtspraak.nl lists at least metadata (META) or metadata and a transcription of the case (DOC)
                .from(0) // Offset in results, used for pagination
                .sort(Sort.ASC) //Sort results on modification date ascending or descending. Default is ascending (oldest first).
                .build().execute();

        Assert.assertTrue(iterator.hasNext());
        iterator = iterator.next();
        Assert.assertTrue(iterator.hasNext());
        iterator = iterator.next();

For all options, see the JavaDoc for SearchRequest.Builder

Search results contain judgment metadata (accessed through SearchResult#getJudgments()). For fetching and parsing the actual documents, use org.leibnizcenter.rechtspraak.RechtspraakNlInterface. For example, given an ECLI:

            OpenRechtspraak doc = parseXml(
                        // For purists that don't trust the parsing scheme (there is no official doctype), you can work with the raw XML stream as well
                        requestXmlForEcli("ECLI:NL:RBNNE:2014:1005").body().byteStream() 
            );

OpenRechtspraak is a Java object which represents the unmarshalled XML document at http://data.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraken/content?id=ECLI:NL:RBNNE:2014:1005

Requirements

• Versions 1.X.X require Java 7
• Versions 2.X.X require Java 8

More

Inquiries go to maarten.trompper@gmail.com.