Since launching the Caselaw Access Project API and bulk data service in October, we’ve been lucky to see a research community develop around this dataset. Today, we’re excited to share examples of how that community is using CAP data to create new kinds of legal scholarship.
Read more of "Developing the CAP Research Community"The Network Librarian
Last year, Jack Cushman expressed a desire for a personal service similar to the one I perform here at LIL – not exactly the DevOps of my job title, but more generally the provision and maintenance of network and computing infrastructure. Jack’s take on this idea is very much a personal one, I think: go to a person known to and trusted by you, not the proverbial faceless corporation, for whom you may be as much product as customer.
Read more of "The Network Librarian"Data Stories and CAP API Full-Text Search
Data sets have tales to tell. In the Caselaw Access Project API, full-text search is a way to find these stories in 300+ years of U.S caselaw, from individual cases to larger themes.
Read more of "Data Stories and CAP API Full-Text Search"Legal Tech Student Group Session Brings Quantitative Methods to U.S. Caselaw
This September we hosted a Legal Tech Gumbo session dedicated to using quantitative methods to find new threads in U.S. caselaw. The Legal Tech Gumbo is a collaboration between the Harvard Law & Technology Society and Harvard Library Innovation Lab (LIL).
Read more of "Legal Tech Student Group Session Brings Quantitative Methods to U.S. Caselaw"The Story of the case.law Domain
Recently we announced the launch of the Caselaw Access Project at case.law. But we want to highlight the story of the case.law domain itself.
Read more of "The Story of the case.law Domain"Witchcraft in U.S. Caselaw
Happy Halloween!
This Halloween is a special one at LIL, since we’re celebrating the release of the Caselaw Access Project and 360 years of digitized U.S. caselaw.
For a small project using our full text search functionality, we mapped out the usage of the term “witchcraft” in United States caselaw.
Read more of "Witchcraft in U.S. Caselaw"Caselaw Access Project (CAP) Launches API and Bulk Data Service
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.
Read more of "Caselaw Access Project (CAP) Launches API and Bulk Data Service"Telling Stories with CAP Data: The Prolific Mr. Cartwright
When I think about data, caselaw isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
Read more of "Telling Stories with CAP Data: The Prolific Mr. Cartwright"The CAP Tracking Tool
Evelin Heidel (@scannopolis on Twitter) recently asked me to document our Caselaw Access Project (website, video) digitization workflow, and open up the source for the CAP “Tracking Tool.” I’ll dig into our digitization workflow in my next post, but in this post, I’ll discuss the Tracking Tool or TT for short. I created the TT to track CAP’s physical and digital objects and their associated metadata.
Read more of "The CAP Tracking Tool"The ‘Library’ in Library Innovation Lab
A roomful of people sitting in armchairs with laptops may not appear at first glance to be a place where library work is happening. It could look more like a tech startup, or maybe a student lounge (modulo the ages of some of the people in the armchairs). You don’t have to be a librarian to see it, but, as the only librarian presently working at LIL, I’ll try to show how LIL’s work is at the heart of librarianship.
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