Making the law accessible opinion the harvard crimson. The library is dedicated to digitizing and making available online selections of its rare and important materials. This essay grew out of the work of a harvard university library task force. Selecting research collections for digitizationfull report clir. Outside the caspersen room at the harvard law school library. Scanned text can be processed with optical character recognition software to. That stipulated, a project from harvards law school library will make it easier. 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. The legal strictures applicable to a particular project will vary depending on the. Its said the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. Harvards library innovation lab is working to digitize nearly 40.
Harvards libraries and museums had undertaken several digitization projects 2. Digitization of library material in possession of libraries is one of the methods of expanding library. Harvard law schools library innovation lab and the legal research company ravel lawspent the last three years digitizing 627 reporters. Harvard is digitizing nearly 40 million pages of case law so you. And we do that by combining legal expertise with software engineering. Between 20 and 2018, the harvard law school library digitized over 40 million pages of u.
Harvard digitizing entire law library laserfiche blog. Harvard law schools library announced a partnership with ravel. Stanford university libraries digitization labs youtube. The digitization of case law is an important first step in making information available to the. Caselaw access project library innovation lab harvard.
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