This project, started by the LegalHack@OKCon 2013, aims to build a Linked Data repository containing information about liability regimes in products liability.

1. An existing standard legal ontology has to be found
2. The ontology is then extended with the needed concepts in order to be able to model the different legal theories used to establish a link between plaintiff and defendant.
3. (optional): a vizualisation could be done to offer a didactic overview of what product liability is
4. A triple store is set.
5. Starting from the defined ontology, the triple store is then populated with information about different applicable legal product liability theories. This is done by venue (country, state or province) and other criteria (e.g. type of product).
6. A simple RESTfull API can be defined on top of the SPARQL-Endpoint to querry information about product liability.

Determine anticipated changes to applicable legal theories

• Strict liability applicable in Germany for damages caused by products sold to consumers without further processing
• Strict liability cause of action not available in North Carolina - contributory negligence applies.

• TBD

• Antoine Logean

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_liability
• http://lawlibrary.hamline.edu/businesslaw