A group of us is gathered today at Harvard Law School for a conversation about the future of legal information, libraries, and the law itself. It’s a fun and diverse group — about 150 strong — in Austin Hall’s north classroom. The wiki for the conference has the schedule, the participants, and a lot of … Read more
Seattle University School of Law is hosting a workshop on the “Future of the Legal Course Book.” It’s a very nicely organized, timely session, brought together by Prof. David Skover, Ron Collins, and deans Ed Rubin of Vanderbilt and Kellye Testy of Seattle University. On the table: how should we rethink the legal case book in the … Read more
There’s enormous promise in the Open Library project, which we’re hearing about today at Berkman’s lunch event from Aaron Swartz. The idea is wonderfully simple: to create a single web page per book. That web page can aggregate lots of data and metadata about each book. In turn, the database can be structured to indicate … Read more