A Comparison of Selected Legal Ontologies for the Design of Legal Process Optimization Ontology

As a matter of fact more and more industries are adopting information communication technologies and its applications in different functional areas of organization spanning from customer order management to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Among several different technological solutions to overcome issues related to interoperability, development and maintenance of complete and shareable ontologies are gaining popularity and wider acceptance with promising results among software communities (viz. designer and developer). Meanwhile, these days people show wider interest on how to utilize the ontology in the legal domain. These legal ontologies are greatly useful when designing a legal knowledge system. The major part of the research is to optimize the case flow process (viz case filing, hearing, postponing, case transfer and the judgment) in the district courts of Sri Lanka. In this paper, our intention is to survey on selected four legal ontologies (shows pioneer steps to system and domain theory development) towards to construct the concept of optimization and organization of the process structure (case filing) and the workflow of the district courts in Sri Lanka. In fact the surveying and comparing the different ontologies towards the particular goal is essential to generate a new ontology either with totally new sub concepts or enhance and fill the gap of the current concept when it is essential to the community. Ultimately ontologies enhance flexibility and agility to the working environment. Our intended future work is to make an ontology framework which can be reused in other legal sub-domains too.