The Need for Ontology of Fiqh to Manage Jurisprudential Information in Digital Space

The purpose of this research is to prove the necessity of creating an ontology of Fiqh for the management of jurisprudential information and superiority of ontology of Fiqh in comparison to the thesaurus in semantic web space. The achievement of this research is a comprehensive structure of Fiqh that does not entail the restrictions of the traditional structures of Fiqh and the structure based on the juristic thesaurus. Based on this new structure, jurisprudential information can be best managed and organized in semantic web space. Based on the new structure, the user's needs can also be accomplished properly. To achieve this goal, two methods of thesaurus and ontology is compared. The study's conclusion is that there is no possibility of sharing knowledge between human and the machine through the thesaurus, but the ontology of Fiqh provides this possibility. That is, the ontology of Fiqh increases the level of standardization of jurisprudential data to the extent that data can be readily processed and understood by the machine. In this way, the data becomes smarter than before.