Ontologies, ICTs and Law. The International Ontojuris Project

• Autore: Bibiana Luz Clara - Ana Haydée di Iorio - Roberto Giordano Lerena
• Carica: Lawyer; Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering at FASTA University - Software Engineer; Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering at FASTA University - Systems Engineer; Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at FASTA University
• Pagine: 281-288

Ontologies, ICTs and Law. The International Ontojuris Project

BIBI ANA LUZ CLAR A, ANA HAYD ÉE DIIOR IO

ROBE RTO GIOR DANO LERE NA∗

SUMM ARY:1. Documentar y LegalInformatics in Argentina – 2. Integration in a Mul-

tilingual World – 3. The UNL Program – 4. The Ontojuris Project – 5. Discussion.

Aiming at the Future – 6. Conclusion

1. DOC UME NTARY LE GAL INF ORM ATIC S IN ARGENTINA

In the beginning, the development of legal informatics captured the at-

tention of law practitioners to improve their working practices and increase

accessibility to information and documents1.

Due to the large amount of legal information in existence, it was neces-

sary to f‌ind a support to facilitate access to this information, both to legal

practitioners and citizens. The Documentary Legal Informatics would thus

develop aiming at the automatic processing of legal information sources: leg-

islation, jurisprudence and doctrine2.

In Argentina, the best example of Documentary Legal Informatics is the

Sistema Argentino de Informática Jurídica, SAIJ (Argentine System of Legal

Informatics) created in 1979. The SAIJ is a government agency supervised by

the Dirección Técnica de Formación e Información Jurídico-Legal (Techni-

cal Off‌ice for Legal Information), under the Subsecretaría de Justicia (Justice

Subsecretariat) in the Ministerio de Justicia, Seguridad y Derechos Humanos

(Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights). It provides normative, ju-

∗B. Luz Clara is a Lawyer; Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering

at FASTA University and President of the Institute of Technology Law of the School for

Lawyers of Mar del Plata; A.H. Di Iorio is a software Engineer; Professor and Researcherat

the Faculty of Engineering at FASTA University and computer science expert at the Depart-

ment of Justice of the province of Buenos Aires. R. Giordano Lerena is a systems Engineer;

Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at FASTA University. The Authors are

grateful to the members of the Ontojuris project of Universidad FASTA and to the mem-

bers of the Ontojuris Project in Spain and Brazil. Also, to Tania Bueno, Sonali Bedin, Hugo

Hoeschl, Cesar Stradiotto and Jesús Cardeñosa. The Authors would like to thank Ana Inés

Cosulich for her assessment in the English version of this paper.

1H.R. PEÑA RANDA QU INTE RO,Iuscibernética, interrelación entre el derecho y la infor-

mática, Caracas, Ed. Miguel García e hijo, 2001.

2B.L. CLAR A,Manual de Derecho Informático, Rosario, Ed. Nova Tesis,2001.