Comments on: Curley’s CALI Keynote and the Future of Open Access Law http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/06/26/curleys-cali-keynote-and-the-future-of-open-access-law/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:32:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris S http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/06/26/curleys-cali-keynote-and-the-future-of-open-access-law/comment-page-1/#comment-13780 Chris S Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:13:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/06/26/curleys-cali-keynote-and-the-future-o#comment-13780 Thinking a little more about this, what would be a really nice and unique service would be a service that allows you to apply tags to external text content. For example, if I knew of a story (or a case, it applies equally well), I could provide the link to the material and the service would allow me to apply tags to the source material such as a "fact" tag for things that are facts, etc... then it become easier to spider/index this material to build dynamic interfaces... Thinking a little more about this, what would be a really nice and unique service would be a service that allows you to apply tags to external text content. For example, if I knew of a story (or a case, it applies equally well), I could provide the link to the material and the service would allow me to apply tags to the source material such as a “fact” tag for things that are facts, etc… then it become easier to spider/index this material to build dynamic interfaces…

]]> By: Chris S http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/06/26/curleys-cali-keynote-and-the-future-of-open-access-law/comment-page-1/#comment-13772 Chris S Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:00:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/06/26/curleys-cali-keynote-and-the-future-o#comment-13772 You can get pretty close to all of that on Westlaw, the obvious difference being things that aren't court document related (such as judge's bios). Of course that isn't the point, the point is open vs. closed :) Someone have $100K of seed capital or grant money just sitting around? I could do this without much difficulty. Now, what I would really like to see is someone with some clout and knowhow to spearhead a project standardizing the tech across all of the circuits. It seems to me that the easiest solution to the problem is to have a "CTO" for all of the circuits. With this type of leadership and a small budget it would seem quite easy to make a move towards making as much of the materials as possible available in an open standards/open access way... You can get pretty close to all of that on Westlaw, the obvious difference being things that aren’t court document related (such as judge’s bios). Of course that isn’t the point, the point is open vs. closed :)

Someone have $100K of seed capital or grant money just sitting around? I could do this without much difficulty.

Now, what I would really like to see is someone with some clout and knowhow to spearhead a project standardizing the tech across all of the circuits. It seems to me that the easiest solution to the problem is to have a “CTO” for all of the circuits. With this type of leadership and a small budget it would seem quite easy to make a move towards making as much of the materials as possible available in an open standards/open access way…

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