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The Expansion of GLIN

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The newswires have just reported that the Library of Congress has awarded ATS Corporation a $14 Million contract to enhance the Global Legal Information Network.

Hebrew and Chinese content is coming:

Under this contract, ATSC will host, maintain and enhance GLIN.gov and a supporting distance learning program. Currently available in 13 languages, ATSC will add Hebrew and simplified Chinese language support for GLIN.gov in the first contract year.

GLIN.gov contains a publicly available database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other legal sources contributed voluntarily by over 40 countries and international organizations. The laws/legal materials of the following countries are available through GLIN:

Brazil
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Justice Studies Center of the Americas
Korea, (South) Republic Of
Kuwait
Lithuania
Mali
Mauritania
Nicaragua
Organization of American States
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Studies in Latin American Constitutional Histories
Taiwan
Tunisia
United States

GLIN

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  1. Simon C
    September 28th, 2007 at 10:40 am

    And another announcement today – from Claraview – indicates that GLIN has had a 70% increase in traffic this year, and anticipates a ten-fold increase in storage capacity in the first contract year – one wonders what they’re planning on storing.