Making the Public Record Public | Harvard Magazine

peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-04-04

Summary:

"Over the past decade, Harvard Law School (HLS) librarians have sent tens of thousands of books to the literary guillotine, severing their spines and running their pages through scanners. In March, the school announced the full public release of their ambitious digitization, the Caselaw Access Project (CAP). Now, researchers and civilians (and artificial intelligence models) can freely access seven million judicial decisions extending back to the nation’s founding...."

Link:

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/04/harvard-legal-database

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
Berkman Klein » data_society's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.law oa.usa oa.harvard.u hu.oa oa.cap oa.digitization oa.pd oa.copyright

Date tagged:

04/04/2024, 11:27

Date published:

04/04/2024, 10:11