Rory Perry: Legal Information StandardsInformation standards for courts and the legal professionTalkative lawyers create a nourishing thicket, or, Law is Free- March 7, 2003 One year ago today, I posted Law is Free, as an attempt to explain some of the underlying reasons for using broad publishsubscribe technology to put more legal information out there for free. In the year since I wrote this story, I've grown more comfortable with the technology, and have added several new pages to the WV Supreme Court's offering of online information, each with its own RSS feed: Recent Opinions Civil Topics Criminal Topics Family Topics.On the larger...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103705/categories/legalTechStandards/2003/03/07.html#a378 Virginia court records headed online- March 3, 2003 The 2003 General Assembly of the State of Virginia has passed a bill HB 2426 intended to regulate remote access to public land and court records through the Internet. Among the interesting details: court and county clerks can refuse to record an instrument containing a social security number; documents containing sensitive information cannot be posted; court clerks will be required to offer free subscription access; the subscription appllication process must include a sworn statement of the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103705/categories/legalTechStandards/2003/03/02.html#a371 More on digital archive standards- March 3, 2003 This article by Michael Looney in the March Edition Syllabus Magazine highlights the need for digital archive standards in higher education. I've written before about joint efforts underway to develop a common digital archive standard, called PDF-A. Mr. Looney, who is a senior director at Adobe Systems, Inc., explains the effort as follows: PDFA proponents (a working group comprised of industry, government, and academic institutions working with AIIM and NPES) are aiming to have PDFA...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103705/categories/legalTechStandards/2003/03/02.html#a370 |