At least two papers on legal information will be presented at ICKM 2009: The 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management, to be held December 3-4, 2009 in Hong Kong. Here are descriptive information and abstracts:
- Associate Dean Joan S. Howland of the University of Minnesota Law School, Legal Intersections and Diversions: The Challenge for Indigenous Populations of Protecting Legal Rights, Honored Traditions and Sacred Knowledge in the 21st Century:
- “The focus of this paper will be the starkly divergent views between indigenous populations, specifically American Indians, and other populations regarding fairness, justice, family and community and property rights. The paper will include a discussion of the theoretical and practical intersections of indigenous traditions and other cultures’s concepts of civil and criminal law. The paper also will touch on the critical importance of traditional values in determining equitable resolution of legal conflicts within American Indian communities. The paper will discuss indigenous populations attitudes toward the ownership and management of knowledge, and how these attitudes may be at times be in conflict with those of other segments of society, including government entities and court systems. The paper will open with a review of the historical underpinnings of American Indian law and then move on to a discussion of intellectual property rights, protection of and appropriate dissemination of indigenous knowledge, and sovereignty concerns. Issues associated with the dissemination of indigenous knowledge within a culture based on oral, rather than written, traditions will also be discussed.”
- Guicai Wang, Jiangning Wu & Zhaoguo Xuan, all of the Dalian University of Technology, Institute of Systems Engineering, Multi-View of Patent Knowledge Visualization:
- “Patent knowledge is the key drive to the technology innovation and product innovation of enterprises. Presenting patent knowledge in a visual way can facilitate many decision-making tasks, such as revealing business trends, inspiring novel industrial solutions, making investment policies, and so on. Current visualization technologies for patent knowledge, however, provide only one perspective including statistic graphs, citation networks, topic maps, etc. In this paper, we propose a combined visualization method for patent knowledge presentation with thematic map, domain ontology tree map and geographic map. It visualizes patent content and the corresponding analysis results in different dimensions, and provides multiple views on patent knowledge and cross-mapping between different views. As a result, the proposed visualization method contributes an overview of patent relations in a particular domain in a comprehensible way, through which new business trends or threats and new technology innovation opportunities can be discovered easily.”
For more information, please see the conference program.
If you identify other papers on legal information to be presented at ICKM 2009, please mention them in the comments.
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