This posting isn't of vital interest. It just explains, why I choose this blog-title image. You ought to skip it.
Some weeks ago I had a nice weekend at Prague. Riding back to Vienna by train, I had plenty of time and played with my camera taking a picture from the forest passing by outside. Back home I sifted through the pictures and wondered: It was more a reflection of myself in the window, than a picture of the forest outside.
What will I discover, when looking on law and legal informatics? What will I detect on the picture constructed inside my brain? An objective reallity, as it is? I think, my perception will be more a reflection of myself, than an image of the reality. Law, legal informatics, data structures, ontologies: We do construct it by our own needs. (But sometimes we don't keep that in our minds.)
The forest of law and legal informatic passing by
Profile: Christian Wachter
I'm working at the publishing house of the austrian unions federation and that's how I hit across legal informatics. We publis information about labour legislation for employees and their representatives - print and online (klick on "Demozugang" or enter "lexml" / "lexml"). So I got two questions:
- How can we publish efficiently legal information from different sources, which is badly structured and not at all standardized?
- How can we make this information findable and understandable not only for the experts but also for these, who are subjected to the laws?
I hope for some help from information technology and science - not only by applying tools but more by implementing methods and proceedures.I'm not a jurist, but studied economics and worked for some years at a newspaper publishing house, tranfoming the paper archive into an state of the art information research center. Thus I experienced, that there are quite different cultures in the business and the legal information sector. The latter isn't the sector of early adopters. This might give us the chance to learn from the succes and errors of others.
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