The Illinois Supreme Court announced Tuesday [May 31, 2011] a new way of officially citing its cases and those of the Illinois Appellate Court. This new method will eliminate the need to contractually publish and purchase the official opinions in…
Archive for the ‘Information Technology’ Category
Use Gmail? Get Ready for New UI Updates and Features
07
Jul
Quoting two snips from the Official Google Blog post: [W]e’re embarking on a series of interface updates to help strip out unnecessary clutter and make Gmail as beautiful as it is powerful. … Look out for these and other new…
Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 1: The Federal Government as Documentation Authenticator, FDsys as a Trusted Repository, and the GPO as a Bulk Distributor of XML Files
06
Jul
For nearly 150 years, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been the official disseminator of Government documents and has assured users of their authenticity. The adoption of digital technology has changed the ways products are created, managed, and delivered…
Oops, Thou Shalt Not Know How to Use One’s Electronic Calendar without Risking Missing Court Filing Deadlines
06
Jul
The transition to a new year always wreaks havoc for a month or two for me. I date checks, letters, etc., with the former year until my memory catch up with the fact that it is 201y, not 201x. I…
Couldn’t Attend CALI’s Annual Meeting, Check Out Archived Webcasts
28
Jun
Videos of presentations are availabe at the CALIcon11 Webcast Catalog. [JH]
Unbound: CALI Conference for Law School Computing Starts Today
23
Jun
Recently I had the opportunity to talk with John Mayer, CALI Executive Director, mentioning that one thing (really the only thing) I miss about not being an academic law librarian anymore was that I cannot justify having my little county…
Tom Bruce to Congress: Get Your Data in Order
22
Jun
Reporting on last week’s hearing of the Committee on House Administration’s subcommittee on oversight in Congress Mulls How iPads, XML Can Cut Costs, Elizabeth Montalbano featured Cornell LII Tom Bruce’s presentation. Bruce suggested use of smart XML-based word processing, better…
Launch of Schema.org: Structured Data Markup Using Microdata for Web Search Engines
17
Jun
Schema.org, a joint initiative of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines. From the Schema.org front page: Search…
Converting and Correcting Bulk-Distributed State Code Text into Well-Formed HTML: Hershowitz on His California State Code Project
16
Jun
Ari Herdhwitz discusses the process he went through to turn California’s statutory code text into structured HTML with hyperlinked internal references after downloading the code titles the State makes available via FTP. He notes that some of the text errors…
