Jusletter IT

Several legal visualizations today are based on model based approaches. For developing such approaches it can be reverted to polysyntactic meta modeling techniques to define modeling languages, algorithms and visualizations on a syntactic, machine processable level for expressing semantic relationships. In this paper we review historical roots of polysyntactic meta modeling in the work of the Catalan philosopher Raimundus Lullus and draw relations to currently used approaches. Thereby we gain insights not only on the historical developments of model based visualization approaches but also on the semantic mechanisms underlying these approaches.