Library Digitization: The St. Louis Freedom Suits Legal Encoding Project
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. The presenters include members of the law library and a member from the Digital Library Services who will discuss the project and all that it involved.
See the prezi at http://prezi.com/8r24ageagkc0/cali/
