Rory Perry: Legal Information StandardsInformation standards for courts and the legal professionCourt technology news at law.com- February 14, 2003 There are a couple of articles recently posted at Law.com regarding court technology issues that are worth reading. The first, Court Documents: Will They Age Wellby David Harrigan, covers the difficulties of assuring the long-term viability of electronic court documents, including a joint effort to develop a robust archiving standard, called PDF-A, for presentation to the ISO and other standards bodies. Harrigan also covers XML, and intimates that the data exchange format will be used in...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103705/categories/legalTechStandards/2003/02/14.html#a348 SOAP for courts- February 5, 2003 How could I have missed this As a follow-up to prior thoughts on implementing e-filing in the courts, I hear great news from Jim McMillan: the Court Technology Laboratory of the National Center for State Courts has developed inCounter, an "Open Source Electronic Filing Demonstration Project." From the site: Specifically, the inCounter Electronic Filing Manager project is an effort to build the core functionality of an electronic filing inbox that has the following initial goals:Demonstrate...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103705/categories/legalTechStandards/2003/02/05.html#a341 What law-related material can we put in RSS feeds- February 3, 2003 In response to this call for ideas on rss legal feeds, and a prompt from Ernie, here's a few unrefined suggestions, in no particular order:Appellate Court Dockets and Opinions: to allow tracking of new filings; filings in particular cases; and issuance of new opinions. These should be primary source feeds (i.e. produced by the courts themselves either as part of the outgoing stream of data from case management systems or from weblog publishing systems). Deployment could start with the highest..http://radio.weblogs.com/0103705/categories/legalTechStandards/2003/02/03.html#a340 |