The workshop emphasizes the essential role of legal informatics in enhancing access and ‎dissemination of legal information, in particular the information within the possession of governments ‎and necessary for informing the public as to their rights and obligations, or that would assist them in ‎doing so. The objective of the workshop is to create an ICT enabling environment to facilitate the ‎administration of justice and harmonization among different judicial and legislative codes at the ‎national level, as well as at the regional and international levels. A legal informatics-based approach ‎is utilized to interconnect available Arab legal and legislative resources into a virtual common ‎knowledge reservoir that employs a standardized processing methodology of legal language and legal ‎information according to documents structure. The common knowledge reservoir sought would be ‎comprised of:‎

• ‎Information system for Arabic legal document management and decision making.‎

• Arabic legal thesaurus to be used not only as a search tool on Arabic legal databases but ‎also as a reference to understand and harmonize legal vocabularies among Arab legal, ‎legislative, research, and professional bodies.‎

• Legal databases that can facilitate building an Arabic legal ontology.‎