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« Older EntriesDigitized Legal Materials from Canadiana.org
I learned recently that the University of Alberta has been digitizing microfilm or microfiche from the collection of Canadiana.org and placing the scans on the Internet Archive. (There’s a PowerPoint presentation online that will give you some sense of U of A’s digitization projects.) At present a search for [contributor:(canadiana.org)] turns up over 22,000 items. [...]
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Guidelines for Canadian Court Web Sites
When Dominic Jaar became the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology, he immediately set out to constitute several “IntellAction” working groups. One of these groups had the mandate to promote the modernization of court web sites in Canada by way of producing guidelines on topic.
Dominic knew this was an area of strong interest [...]
Data.gov.uk Gets It
And who wouldn’t — get it, that is — with Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and AI prof Nigel Shadbolt advising? Data.gov.uk is HMGovernment’s open access data site, containing three thousand data sets. The public is invited to take the data, manipulate and mix it how they please, and let data.gov.uk know if they develop an [...]
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Law Library of Congress Launches Video Podcasts
Without much in the way of overt hoopla, the Law Library of Congress today launched seven video podcasts of lectures and presentations on matters of current interest. The link to the Itunes site is here.
The topics covered are:
Legislating in Heels–An Anecdotal Journal: The Honorable Constance “Connie” Morella 1:09:03
Legal Challenges Facing NATO at 60 1:41:21
The Approach [...]
Trial of California Prop. 8 Challenge to be on YouTube
As everyone will know, California’s Proposition 8, passed in November of 2008, added this section to the state constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” On January 11, the constitutionality of that law will be challenged in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California [...]
Posted in Access to Legal Information, Constitutional Law, Courts, Family Law, Open Access, United States | 1 Comment »>
Canadian Authors Launch Petititon Against Google Book Settlement
A group of Canadian authors has launched an online petition to protest the proposed settlement intended to put an end to a class action copyright lawsuit by U.S.-based author and publisher groups over Google’s plans to make and sell digital copies of millions of books.
In November 2009, the settlement was amended so that it would [...]
Catching Up with The Law Librarian Podcast
It’s been a little while since I wrote about The Law Librarian podcast created by Richard Leiter and available over at BlogTalkRadio and iTunes. I am one of several regular panelists; panelists now take turns participating in the shows depending on the topics. Richard has also expanded the schedule from once a month to once [...]
Posted in Access to Legal Information, Information Seekers, Judicial Decisions, Librarians, Online Research Sources, Open Access, Publishing, Searching, Web Applications | No Comments »>
ONSC implements the Neutral Citation for Case Law
Louise Hamel, manager of the Judges’ Library for Ontario Courts, just announced to Canadian legal publishers that beginning January 2, 2010, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will assign a neutral citation to their decisions, except for the Small Claims Court.
The Neutral Citation Standard for Case Law was developed in 1998 by the Canadian Citation [...]
Cornell University’s Digitized Law Books
Thanks to a tweet by @richards1000 I was reminded about Cornell University Library’s digitization project, which has resulted in over 2000 law books’ becoming freely available online at the Internet Archive. Slawyer Michael Lines spent some time at Cornell in 2008 and reported on the digitization project then current. As with most texts in the [...]
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ABA Custom Search Engine
The American Bar Association’s Technology Resource Center has launched a search engine that enables you to search the “free full-text of over 300 online law reviews and law journals” as well as some additional material. There is a list of sources searched on the page where you’ll find the search box.
Because the search facility [...]
Supporting Creative Commons
Lawrence Lessig has put out a call to make a donation to support Creative Commons. From his request:
About 8 years ago, a bunch of us started thinking about how we might make the current system of copyright work better. We wanted a voluntary system that would give people a simple way to signal the freedom [...]
The Creative Commons Toque
Last week Leslie Ellen Harris correctly pointed out in her Slaw post Using Flickr Photos that we should not assume content available on the web is freely available without copyright. She gave photos on Flickr as the example.
One thing I love about Flickr, however, is that it allows those of us who upload photos to [...]
Webcast of Khadr Hearing at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing Prime Minister of Canada, et al. v. Omar Ahmed Khadr tomorrow, November 13 — a Friday the 13th, as it happens. There is a webcast of the hearing scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. EDT.
You can read the SCC Case Information Summary to get a quick overview of [...]
Open Access Law with Malamud and Others.
Following on our comments this week on law and access, a show on BlogTalkRadio called The Law Librarian has a podcast available of today’s discussion on OA legal resources with Carl Malamud and others. They talk about his Law.gov initiative, the Obama admin., and others. A good listen.
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Free Law Kerfuffle
I am amazed that the three minutes extracted from an interview that I gave in the summer of 2009 with the thought that parts of it would be used in a tribute video to be shown at the 2009 AALL Convention has caused such a kerfuffle. [Ed. note: see Berring’s Scepticism on the Future [...]
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