Stanford university libraries digitization labs youtube. This essay grew out of the work of a harvard university library task force. Caselaw access project library innovation lab harvard. Its said the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. The digitization of case law is an important first step in making information available to the. Outside the caspersen room at the harvard law school library. Harvard law schools library innovation lab and the legal research company ravel lawspent the last three years digitizing 627 reporters. Harvard digitizing entire law library laserfiche blog. Harvard is digitizing nearly 40 million pages of case law so you. Caselaw access project gives free access to 360 years of american. Harvard law schools library announced a partnership with ravel. What role does the digitization of research collections play in a librarys efforts to. Take a video tour of the stanford university libraries digitization labs see how we digitize maps, books, manuscripts, born digital materials, and audio v. Making the law accessible opinion the harvard crimson.
That stipulated, a project from harvards law school library will make it easier. Scanned text can be processed with optical character recognition software to. Harvard law has collaborated with ravel law, a commercial research and legal analytics company to digitize more than 40 million pages from its venerated library, making those materials free. The library is dedicated to digitizing and making available online selections of its rare and important materials. Selecting research collections for digitizationfull report clir. Harvards library innovation lab is working to digitize nearly 40 million pages of case law from the harvard law school library collection, so the public can access it online and for free. Harvards libraries and museums had undertaken several digitization projects 2. Harvards library innovation lab is working to digitize nearly 40. Digitization of library material in possession of libraries is one of the methods of expanding library. Between 20 and 2018, the harvard law school library digitized over 40 million pages of u. Harvard is digitizing nearly 40 million pages of case law. And we do that by combining legal expertise with software engineering.
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