Domain

Documentary Domain in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Documentary Domain in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Documentary Domain may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Documentary domain is the territory (domain) from which documents are gathered for an Information Retrieval database. Two Information Retrieval databases can have identical subject scopes and identical documentary scopes, yet provide very different coverage because of different documentary domains. An Information Retrieval database that obtains documents only from the holdings of one library, for example, will have very different coverage compared to an Information Retrieval database that combs the entire world for documents that fall within its subject and documentary scopes.

Domain in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Domain in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Domain may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. See documentary domain; subject domain.