- From: Rinke Hoekstra <hoekstra@uva.nl>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 07:57:34 +0100
- To: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Dear Garret, I had a quick look at the references at the end of your essay, and concluded we must be living in parallel worlds ;) Are you familiar with the work of the AI & Law community? Worth having a look at are e.g. the proceedings of the bi-annual ICAIL conference [1], the annual Jurix conference [2] (this December, in Leiden, the Netherlands), the AI & Law journal [3] and several workshops, a.o. the LOAIT [4]. There is a lot of work going on in the area of Legal Ontologies, most notably, the Core Legal Ontology, an extension to DOLCE [5], and (shameless advertisement) the LKIF Core Ontology of Basic Legal Concepts [6]. That said, I am sure I will read your essay with interest! Best, Rinke Hoekstra [1] http://www.iaail.org/icail-2007 (http://www.iaail.org) [2] http://www.jurix2007.org (http://www.jurix.nl) [3] http://www.springerlink.com/content/100239/ [4] http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html [5] http://wiki.loa-cnr.it/index.php/LoaWiki:CLO [6] http://www.estrellaproject.org/lkif-core/ On 4 nov 2007, at 23:45, Garret Wilson wrote: > > Everyone, > > I finally got around to publishing an essay I wrote last year, which > may be of interest to this community. Entitled, "Refactoring the > Law: Reformulating Legal Ontologies", it looks at the similar > evolutions of legal systems and software engineering, and explains > how they are both moving towards an ontological perception of the > world. RDF is specifically mentioned. > > http://www.garretwilson.com/essays/law/refactoringlaw.html > > I hope someone enjoys reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. > > Cheers, > > Garret ---------------------------------------------- Drs. Rinke Hoekstra Email: hoekstra@uva.nl Skype: rinkehoekstra Phone: +31-20-5253499 Fax: +31-20-5253495 Web: http://www.leibnizcenter.nl/users/rinke Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam, PO Box 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands ----------------------------------------------
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