The subfields for the LexALP Corpus and Term Bank structure have been elaborated and selected by a team of legal experts, taking into account the classification specificities followed by the Alpine Convention and the need to classify texts from several different legal systems according to one common structure inside the corpus.
For this reason, legal experts have subdivided the fields spatial planning and sustainable development into five main areas, in accordance with the Alpine Convention Protocol dealing with these subjects and subsequently adopted an EU-based model for further subdividing the five main topics in such a way that all countries involved could classify their selected documents under a maximum of three main items, the first of which must be indicated obligatorily.
This classification allows an easy selection of all subsets of documents according to subject field and precise selection of terms on specific themes in the terminology data base.
The corpus classification structure can be downloaded here: