Digital Publication of Tribal Laws Pilot Project | University of Wisconsin-Madison Law Library | Sept. 2020

"The University of Wisconsin Law Library recently received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant for their Digital Publication of Tribal Laws Pilot Project. The project will develop an open platform that will empower libraries to improve access to tribal laws published into the public domain ... The University of Wisconsin Law Library has partnered with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, the UW Law School Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and the Open Law Library (OLL) on this pilot project. Together, they will address the national need for public access to tribal law. ...The Digital Publication of Tribal Laws Pilot Project combines a low-cost publishing platform which addresses issues that plague other publishing methods – tribal control, currentness, authentication and preservation – with a newly created open source library platform that combines the law of many tribes via an open access, federated search portal for enhanced discovery...."