Legal Theory Knowledge Graph Project - List of Tools and Resources

The following links point to resources collected during the exploratory phase of the Legal Theory Graph Project at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. This is not a comprehensive list of available resources or scholarship, but a selection based on the needs of the project and personal preferences. Most of the research for this list was done in 2021-2023, prior to the release of ChatGPT and other major language models that have revolutionized the NLP technology landscape. While some aspects of these newer developments have been incorporated, the list mostly reflects the pre-LLM state of the art.

The list differentiates between

1. Graph Technologies in general, wich refer to standards and tools for collecting, editing, and presenting (visualizing) graph data;
2. Knowledge Organizing Systems (KOS), which provide standards for the dissemination and reuse of information;
3. Data Sources : metadata providers and source data from which metadata for node and edge data can be imported;
4. Corpus Lingustic Technologies which serve to quantatively analyze full texts and can generate node and edge data from text corpora;
5. Bibliometry/Citation Analysis which specifically deals with citations as research data, often using a graph