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peter.suber's bookmarks 2015-10-14
Summary:
"[The] “Free the Law” project [from the Harvard Law School Library] aims to digitize the entire body of US caselaw and make it available to the Harvard community and the world in an open-access database. We are excited to announce that this project entered the production phase over the summer with the establishment of a partnership that allowed us to fully staff the project. Details of that partnership will be revealed later this fall. We estimate there are 42,000 volumes and 40 million pages to scan. We're scanning at a rate of 400–600,000 pages per week and thanks to work done in the pilot and proof-of-concept phases, we hit the 10-million-page milestone on September 17...."