An integrated system for retrieving on-line legal information, organizing and managing a personal documentation

摘要

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 new be retrieved for the most part by consulting the many legal archievs on line. First the system illustrated in this paper has the aim to failitate the data acquisition from heterogeneous legal databases; then the selected data are collected, structured and organized in a local management archieve. After this phase, where the interesting data constitute only a structured archive, for the system it is easier to elicit the corresponditing 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.