Semantic Web Technologies and Legal Scholarly Publishing

"This book introduces theories, formalisms and applications that permit effective interaction between legal scholarly documents and their related semantic and formal descriptions, using the semantic technologies that have been employed to create the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Such an application of Semantic web technologies to the world of documents and publishing is here termed Semantic Publishing. Research and publishing in Law have a long tradition of applying such semantic technologies to real-world scenarios. In this context, the aim of this book is to describe and propose solutions to three of the main issues faced by the application of Semantic Publishing within the context of the legal scholarly documents, namely: the need for tools to link document text to a formal representation of its meaning; the requirement for complete metadata schemas/ontologies that can be used to describe documents using the language and vocabulary of the world of publishing; and the demand for effective user interfaces that permit such tools and schemas to be applied in practice"--Page ix.