SIAM: an integrated intelligent system for retrieving, organising and managing on-line legal information

Thanks to recent developments in informatic and telematic technologies, the documentary material needed for the legal theorist and operator to conduct their activities-in any sector of law and as concerns any related professional function-can now be retrieved for the most part by consulting the many legal archives online. These differ in structure and features and are available especially in the Italian systems of the Court of Cassation, Chamber of Deputies, Senate and State Mint and Printery, in addition to the various specialistic information systems created by public authorities and organisations, but also by institutions and private concerns, and distributed through the channels of traditional and electronic publishing (printed material or on CD-ROM), or on the international telematic networks (especially Internet).