CLIC
Simon (C’s) recent posting recalling the work of the Canadian Law Information Council (CLIC) set me thinking. None of the CLIC material is now online, I think, so I searched through the UVic law library catalogue. The work of CLIC on behalf of Canadian law and legal information and technology was truly astounding. It is worth bearing a look or a relook.
I don’t mean this to merely duplicative of Simon, nor to remiss fondly about the old days, but to revisit one of CLIC’s innovations that truly useful, and which could be reinvented in the online world. That is, if I remember correctly, the concept of an “idea bank”, where ideas for research or publication etc. by a number of contributors were simply collected and available to all to use or take up.
Simon has touched upon this as well, as in someone should write the history of CLIC etc., but I would really be I think it is still a great concept. Other SLAWers may remember it better than I and I hope they chime in.
But I throw the “idea” out there, rough formed as it is.
nc
Yes the only history that exists requires a fairly obscure search in http://www.google.no/
As I read the minutes of Bailli and Austlii I do get deja vu, except of course we didn’t have the technologies of html and universal communication, and we would have been committed if we had predicted that all lawyers would have data processing terminals and apparatus in their offices.
More anon on what is being done on the history side.
Does anyone know whether the CLIC files ended up in the PAC?
Claudette Racette confirmed this morning that the CLIC files did go to the PAC