OTM 2013 - LNCS 8185-8186

A Data Space System for the Criminal Justice Chain

Jan van Dijk¹, Sunil Choenni¹, Erik Leertouwer¹, Marco Spruit², and Sjaak Brinkkemper²

¹Dutch Ministry of Security & Justice, Research & Documentation Centre (WODC), Turfmarkt 147, 2511 DP, The Hague, The Netherlands
j.j.van.dijk@minvenj.nl
r.choenni@minvenj.nl
e.c.leertouwer@minvenj.nl

²Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands
m.r.spruit@uu.nl
s.brinkkemper@uu.nl

Abstract. In this paper we present the concepts and implementation of a data space system for the management of data from heterogeneous sources in the criminal justice field. Our system exploits domain knowledge in the field of justice to streamline and to relate the content of different databases in the chain. In our system, domain knowledge is encoded in a space manager layer. Furthermore, in this layer it is decided which databases should be used to answer a query. This decision is taken on the basis of the encoded domain knowledge, and the content of the databases and its quality.

Keywords: data space system, criminal justice chain, domain knowledge, chain management

LNCS 8185, p. 755 ff.

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