Happy Halloween!
This Halloween is a special one at LIL, since we’re celebrating the release of the Caselaw Access Project and 360 years of digitized U.S. caselaw.
For a small project using our full text search functionality, we mapped out the usage of the term “witchcraft” in United States caselaw.
Read more of "Witchcraft in U.S. Caselaw"Today the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library is excited to announce the launch of its Caselaw Access Project (CAP) API and bulk data service, which puts the full corpus of published U.S. case law online for anyone to access for free.
Read more of "Caselaw Access Project (CAP) Launches API and Bulk Data Service"When I think about data, caselaw isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
Read more of "Telling Stories with CAP Data: The Prolific Mr. Cartwright"Evelin Heidel (@scannopolis on Twitter) recently asked me to document our Caselaw Access Project (website, video) digitization workflow, and open up the source for the CAP “Tracking Tool.” I’ll dig into our digitization workflow in my next post, but in this post, I’ll discuss the Tracking Tool or TT for short. I created the TT to track CAP’s physical and digital objects and their associated metadata.
Read more of "The CAP Tracking Tool"A roomful of people sitting in armchairs with laptops may not appear at first glance to be a place where library work is happening. It could look more like a tech startup, or maybe a student lounge (modulo the ages of some of the people in the armchairs). You don’t have to be a librarian to see it, but, as the only librarian presently working at LIL, I’ll try to show how LIL’s work is at the heart of librarianship.
Read more of "The ‘Library’ in Library Innovation Lab"Each summer brings to LIL a new cohort of Summer Fellows to inspire and challenge us with their visions of what libraries make possible.
Read more of "Announcing the 2018 Cohort of LIL Summer Fellows"The Creative Commons Conference in Toronto was wonderful this past weekend! It was a pleasure to meet the mix of artists, educators, civil servants, policymakers, journalists, and copyright agents (and more) who were there.
Read more of "LIL Takes Toronto: the Creative Commons Summit 2018"This week:
A chat bot that can sue anyone and everything!
Devices listening to our every move
And an interview with Jack Cushman, a developer in LIL, about built-in compassion (and cruelty) in law, why lawyers should learn to program, weird internet, and lovely podcast gimmicks (specifically that of Rachel and Griffin McElroy’s Wonderful! podcast)
Read more of "Overheard in LIL - Episode 2"We’re off to a great start here in Denver at the LITA 2017 Forum.
Read more of "LITA, Day One"Our first podcast, about what our podcast should be about, is out! Starring Adam Ziegler, Anastasia Aizman, Andy Silva, and Brett Johnson.
Read more of "Overheard in LIL (the podcast!)"