Web Scraping for a Database of Court Decision Related Documents

Introduction

For a successful re-identification of involved people in a court decision, we need external data. This project has the goal of building a well-structured database of external data connected to Swiss federal court rulings.

List of possible data sources:

• Media messages of the courts (e.g. the federal court)
• BAG Bulletin
• Swiss Transporation Safety Investigation Board
• Newspapers (SRF, swissdox, etc.)
• Online phone books (e.g. local.ch)
• Social Media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook)
• Government documents
• Trade registers/Business register (e.g. Moneyhouse)
• Map Information systems/Land register