Theo Douglas, Government Technology; Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data
[Kip Currier: Discovered the recent launch of this impressive Harvard University-anchored Caselaw Access Project, while updating a lecture for next week on Open Data.
The
free site provides access to highly technical data, full text cases,
and even "quirky" but fascinating legal info...like the site's Gallery, highlighting instances in which "witchcraft" is mentioned in legal cases throughout the U.S.
Check out this new site...and spread the word about it!]
"A new free website spearheaded by the Library Innovation Lab at the
Harvard Law School makes available nearly 6.5 million state and federal
cases dating from the 1600s to earlier this year, in an initiative that
could alter and inform the future availability of similar areas of
public-sector big data.
Led by the Lab, which was founded in 2010 as an arena for
experimentation and exploration into expanding the role of libraries in
the online era, the Caselaw Access Project went live Oct. 29 after five years of discussions, planning and digitization of roughly 100,000 pages per day over two years.
The effort was inspired by the Google Books Project; the Free Law
Project, a California 501(c)(3) that provides free, public online access
to primary legal sources, including so-called “slip opinions,” or early
but nearly final versions of legal opinions; and the Legal Information
Institute, a nonprofit service of Cornell University that provides free
online access to key legal materials."
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