SOLI (Standard for Open Legal Information) is an open, CC-BY licensed standard designed to represent universal elements of legal data. It improves communication and data interoperability across the legal industry by providing a comprehensive ontology and taxonomy for legal concepts.
SOLI.owl: The primary OWL (Web Ontology Language) file containing the SOLI ontologydocumentation/(coming soon): Detailed documentation on SOLI concepts and usageexamples/(coming soon): Sample implementations and use cases
- Comprehensive: Over 18,000 standardized concepts covering a wide range of legal terms
- Unique Identifiers: Every concept has a unique IRI (Internationalized Resource Identifier)
- Multilingual Support: Translations for the ten most common languages
- Open Development: Collaboratively developed by legal professionals, technologists, and domain experts
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/alea-institute/soli.git - Explore the
SOLI.owlfile using an ontology editor like Protégé or WebProtégé - Refer to the documentation for implementation guidelines
SOLI can be applied in various legal technology scenarios, including:
- Contract Management
- Case Management
- Generative AI for legal applications
- Legal research and analytics
- Regulatory compliance
- Explore: Review our documentation, tutorials, and examples
- Integrate: Use the SOLI OWL data or API in your systems and services
- Collaborate: Share your experiences and contribute to improving the standard
We welcome contributions from the legal and technology communities. Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md(coming soon) file for guidelines on how to participate in SOLI's development.
The data in this repository is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License][cc-by].
Any source is licensed under the MIT license.
Prior versions of a related project were available under an MIT license. The list of all original contributors can be reviewed there.
For more information, visit openlegalstandard.org.