Library of Congress taps LII for Expertise in Legislative Information
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"It’s finally official: The Library of Congress has selected us [Cornell's Legal Information Institute] to work on a redesign of their legislative-metadata models. This sounds like really geeky stuff (and it is), but the effects for government and for citizens should be pretty big. What’s really being talked about here is (we hope) a great improvement not only in what can be retrieved from systems like THOMAS and LIS (the less-well-known internal system used by Congress itself), but also in what can be linked to and referenced...."