Twitter tweets from the Cornell Law.gov Workshop are available at #lawgov. The goal of this invitation-only workshop — being held 22-23 March 2010 at the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA — is to begin the development of metadata standards for a proposed distributed registry and repositoryRead… Read more »
[NOTE: These events are being tweeted on Twitter at #lawgov.] Here are upcoming events in connection with the Law.gov legal open government data project: April 28, 2010: Duke Law.gov Workshop, co-sponsored by Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and to be held at Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina [added 11 MarchRead… Read more »
The National Inventory of Legal Materials: A Call to Action is now available; per @evwayne, it “offers guidance and suggestions for creating the inventory,” which is a component of the Law.gov legal open government data project. Click here to learn more about the National Inventory. Click here to learn more about the Law.gov project.
Here are upcoming events in connection with the Law.gov legal open government data project: February 24, 2010: Roundtable at Yale Law School, for members of the Yale Law School community, with Tom Bruce and Carl Malamud; February 24, 2010: Liberating Legal Information: The Law.Gov Movement: Panel Discussion at New York Law School; February 25, 2010:Read… Read more »
Videos are now available for all of the workshop panels and the Law.gov panel from Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), a workshop held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Click here for a summary of the legal-information-related discussion at the workshop.
The workshop entitled Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), featured much valuable discussion about legal information. (The Twitter hashtag for the workshop is #pogw. An apparently complete collection of tweets from the workshop is available here. My tweets from theRead… Read more »
A panel (scroll down) about the Law.gov legal open government data project, will be held 22 January 2010, at the workshop entitled Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency, at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Click here to submit questions for the panel discussion, via Google Moderator.Read… Read more »
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for 2007-2009 is now available for bulk download in XML from U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) FDsys. Click here for the user guide. Why is this of potential interest to the legal community? First, attorneys, legal IT personnel, and law librarians can download the CFR in XML andRead… Read more »
[NOTE: Updated on 2 February 2010 to link to the Law.gov Project Google Group. Updated on 27 January 2010 to link to video and a summary of the Law.gov panel at the Princeton Open Government Workshop. Updated on 25 January 2010 to link to news about the National Inventory of Legal Materials. Updated on 23Read… Read more »