Views to Legal Information Systems and Legal Sublevels
This paper concerns the legal system and legal documentation systems, as well as their interconnectedness and introduces the idea of legal sublevels. Examples of legal sublevels are legal terms, ontologies, annotations, commentaries, etc. A sublevel is treated as a representation level of the legal domain. In terms of software engineering, a sublevel can be defined as a level of infrastructural services for several domains. This paper is a kind of exploratory research; an abstract theory is being developed. A key question is "What are the sublevels in law and legal informatics?" We also examine the concept of view and project the core and peripheral areas around the legal system onto Schweighofer's 8 views/4 methods/4 syntheses model. We link the idea of sublevel with the notion of view.
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