An Integrated System For Retrieving On-line LegalInformation, Organizing And Managing APersonal Documentation

Abstract

Thanks to the most recent developments in informatic and telematic technologies, the documentary material needed for the legal theorist and operator to conduct their activities in any sector of law and as concerns any related professional function can now be retrieved for the most part by consulting the many legal archives on line. First the system illustrated in this paper has the aim to facilitate the data acquisition from heterogeneous legal databases; then the selected data are collected, structured and organized in a local management archive. After this phase, where the interesting data constitute only a structured archive, for the system it is easier to elicit the corresponding knowledge necessary to construct the advisory system knowledge base. The paper highlights the characteristics of the Italian on-line legal information sources and illustrates the overall architecture of the system with particular reference to the data acquisition and structurisation system tools, to the functions of the managing local archive and to the features of the consulting integrated expert system. 1 On-line Legal Information Acquisition and Personal Legal Documentation Construction The ease of use, reliability and efficiency of retrieval systems (and thus also of search engines) for obtaining legal information on line, have been targeted mainly through the realisation of friendly interfaces, that can be generalised or personalised in Management Information Systems, C.A. Brebbia & P. Pascolo (Editors) © 2000 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISBN 1-85312-815-5