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Ground-up law: Open access, Source quality, and the CFR

Presenter(s): 
Sara Frug, Cornell Law School
Thomas Bruce, Cornell Law School

In late 2009, the LII began a joint study with the Federal Depository Library program of the United States Library of Congress, the Government Printing Office, and the Office of the Federal Register to work through technical issues in producing a web version of the Code of Federal Regulations.. This session discusses some of the challenges LII faced and explores some of the implications for open access initiatives.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
23 June 14:30 - 15:30
Room: 
267

Audience

Track: 
Librarian
Track: 
Technologist

Library Digitization: The St. Louis Freedom Suits Legal Encoding Project

Presenter(s): 
Aris Woodham, Washington University School of Law
Hyla Bondareff, Washington University School of Law
Erika Cohn, Washington University Digital Library Services

In 2009 the Washington University Libraries, were awarded a grant to digitize, transcribe, and encode approximately 300 freedom suits from the St. Louis Circuit Court Records Project (http://www.stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/) (of which Dred Scott is a part). Although the suits had previously been imaged, they were not useful to many scholars because they were available only as difficult to read images. The nearly complete project included developing extensions to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding legal documents to reflect legal function, genres, and roles.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
23 June 10:30 - 11:30
Room: 
267

Audience

Track: 
Faculty
Track: 
Librarian
Track: 
Technologist

Men Who Stare at Code: Regular Expressions, Metadata Retrieval, And The Use of ESP To Guess Titles Without Actually Looking.

Presenter(s): 
John Joergensen, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark

For those with some experience with establishing an maintaining scholarly and other document repositories, the problem of gathering quality metadata for cataloging and retrieval is well known. The solution is to find methods to extract metadata from existing documents by the most efficient means available. Social tagging, and various commercial products, and getting authors to fill out forms present themselves as solutions, but typically fall far short of what is needed.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
23 June 16:00 - 17:00
Room: 
267

Audience

Track: 
Librarian
Track: 
Technologist
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