The FLINT Ontology: An Actor-Based Model of Legal Relations

Recording and documenting human AI-driven normative decision-making processes has so far been highly challenging. We focus on the challenge of coordination: process by which stakeholders in a community understand agree what norms they abide by. Our aim is to develop formalize FLINT language, allows high-level description systems. enables legal experts norms, while also serving as basis for technical implementation. contribution consists development an ontology its RDF/OWL implementation we have made openly accessible. designed competency questions. Additionally, validated modeling example cases using ontology’s data model software tooling.