Rechtsinformation & Juristische Suchtechnologien

#Folksonomies and #Law

Theoretical issues on «search for meaning» and legal ontologies

Federico Costantini

Category:

Scientific Articles

Region:

Italy

Field of law:

Legal Information & Search Technologies

Citation: Federico Costantini, #Folksonomies and #Law, in: Jusletter IT 25-September-2015

This paper explores some foundational issues on the deployment of folksonomies in legal information management. It is analysed whether and how these information technologies could be suitable to represent the connection among the «Cur jus?» (the meaning of law for the individual), the «Quid jus?» (the concept of law considered as the structure of social ties), and the «Quid juris?» (the purpose of the law, namely to solve disputes among people) within a legal ontology under-pinned on a theoretical perspective which claims to be realistical, and that, for this reason, it is somewhat unusual in Legal Informatics.

Table of contents

1. Legal ontology and Legal Informatics between the «map» and the «territory»
2. Some preliminary remarks on a realistical perspective of legal ontology
- 2.1. The connection among «Cur jus?», «Quid jus?» and «Quid juris?»
- 2.2. Legal ontology and social ontology as decentralized networks
- 2.3. Key concepts of a realistical legal ontology
3. Folksonomies and the «search of meaning» in law
- 3.1. Tagging as a tool for offline and online «search of meaning»
- 3.2. Folksonomies and their features
- 3.3. Short discussion on technical issues and remedies
- 3.4. Key concepts of folksonomies
- 3.5. Final remarks
4. The use of folksonomies in legal «search for meaning»
- 4.1. Complications and practical remedies in daily legal information management
- 4.2. An example of legal folksonomy
- 4.3. The contribute of folksonomies to law
5. Concluding remarks: folksonomies and legal realism

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