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====== API4KB Use Cases ====== This page contains a list of use cases to be supported by the API4KB [[start|Link back to API4KB Main Page]] ===== Policy-Based Information Exchange ===== The following use case shows what is necessary to maintain security and privacy when someone (or something) requests access to information: {{UseCase.policy-based_information_exchange_1.25x.png}} ===== Elisa Placeholder ===== The following use case shows somthing that Elisa has in mind: {{UseCase.Elisa.png}} ===== LegalRuleML Placeholder (Tara) ===== Use Case of a Generic Criminal Legal System with input from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Criminal_Procedure#Parties) Actors Parties may have agents acting on their behalf, and these agents may be restricted in their access to the KB to some subset of the authority of the Party. 1. Judges - may be different depending on stage of proceedings 2. suspect 3. defendant 4. prosecutor 5. police 6. injured party 7. civilly-liable party (to pay damages and/or fines) 8. counsel (lawyers) for suspect/defendant 9. witnesses 10. experts 11. courts 12. jury (not in Italy) 13. legislature Actions The particular actions are roughly categorized based on CRUD Create (POST) Read (GET) Update (PUT/PATCH) Delete (DELETE) Note that the difference between Create and Update is a function of the modularity of the KB. In a highly modular architecture, a new table/knowledgebase-module may be created when a law is passed, when an investigation is opened, etc.. In a less modular architecture, these actions may be Updates rather than Creates. 0. (*CRU) pass, modify and annul *laws* - Legislature 1. (*R) query (including semantic query) to legal KB for details of the legal code - General Public 2. (*CRU) maintain records of investigations - Prosecutor, Judges, Defendant, Counsel, Police 3. (CRU) initiate proceedings - Prosecutor 4. (CRU) call a hearing - Judge 5. (*CRU) file requests (authorization to conduct investigations, such as wire-tapping) - Prosecutor 6. (*CRU) issue an order (e.g. authorizing investigations), *with explanation* - Judge 7. (CRU) appeal an order - Prosecutor, Counsel 8. (RU) drop charges - Prosecutor 9. (CRU) proceed to trial - Judge, Prosecutor 10. (*CRU) file a brief - Counsel 11. (CRU) summon witness or expert - Prosecutor, Counsel 12. (*CRU) provide testimony or expert judgement - Witness, Expert, Defendant, Injured Party 13. (*RU) convict/acquit, *with explanation* - Judge, Jury 14. (*CRU) issue a sentence - Judge 15. (CRU) appeal a conviction - Prosecutor, Counsel 16. (*RU) reverse, amend or quash a decision, *with explanation* - Judge 17. (UD) delete/expunge records - Court 18. (CRU) manage records on payment of penalties, imprisonment, etc - Court Those items with * are the services that go beyond the capability of an ordinary database, requiring encoding of natural language texts into a knowledge representation language and performing specialized actions, such as parsing or (semantic) querying, on that encoding.
