Caselaw Access Project (CAP) Launches API and Bulk Data Service | Library Innovation Lab

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-29

Summary:

Caselaw Access Project (CAP) Launches API and Bulk Data Service

The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School Library launched 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 about the Caselaw Access Project's API and bulk data service in Fortune

 

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"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.

Between 2013 and 2018, the Library digitized over 40 million pages of U.S. court decisions, transforming them into a dataset covering almost 6.5 million individual cases. The CAP API and bulk data service puts this important dataset within easy reach of researchers, members of the legal community and the general public...."

Link:

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2018/10/29/caselaw-access-project-cap-launches-api-and-bulk-data-service/

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oa.new oa.law oa.usa oa.digitization oa.data oa.harvard.u hu.oa oa.apis

Date tagged:

10/29/2018, 13:24

Date published:

10/29/2018, 10:05