The Comparative Constitutions Project held an online training on its new open-source digital tools for concept analysis.

CCP’s concept integration team—Andrés Cruz, Zachary Elkins, Roy Gardner, Matthew Martin, Ashley Moran, and Guillermo Pérez—gave demos of the tools and walked through the kinds of questions that can be explored through the four new tools below:

• Sartori.network platform: What is the conceptual landscape of law and political science? How do research projects overlap in these domains? How does your new concept compare to established frameworks?
• Constitution Comparison Tool: How much does a draft constitution change throughout drafting? Does a constitution borrow text from others in the region? Which constitutions are outliers in a set?
• Domain Comparison Tool: What is the conceptual overlap between two ontologies? Which topics from new ontologies capture more nuance? Should topics from other domains be added to an ontology?
• Segments-as-Topics Tool: What is the best formulation of a new topic to add to an existing ontology? Where does the topic appear in a corpus?

The training slides below include screen-capture demos of the tools, links to video tutorials, and overviews of the tools and their applications. 

The training recording below provides the complete training, demonstrating varied use cases for the tools in research on a range of legal and constitutional issues.

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Funding acknowledgement: The Concept Integration in Comparative Law program is supported by National Science Foundation Award No. 2315189. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The research team deeply appreciates NSF’s Accountable Institutions and Behavior program and Human Networks and Data Science program for this support.