I had the opportunity to speak about linked data at the Canadian Legal Information Institute's Law, Government and Open Data Conference & Hackathon in Ottawa this past weekend. My presentation was entitled Linked Data and Canadian Legal Resources and my slides and speaking notes are available on York Space. It has a fantastic event which began […]
For anyone interested in a sneak preview of this new book edited by Michael Geist, you'll find the introductory chapter available on the Irwin Law website. From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda will be issued by Irwin Law this month and we should have a both a print and […]
Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law is presenting a one-day conference on The Google Book Search Project and Canada: Cross-Border Legal Perspectives. This all day event will take place on May 28, 2010 at the Bennett Lecture Hall, Flavelle House, 78 Queen`s Park and will "consider possible Canadian solutions […]
The latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale is now available online. Volume 52, Number 3 / June 2010 includes the following articles: Bridging Divides in Canadian Criminology: Some Thoughts on a Possible Future / Laura Huey, Paul-Philippe Paré Rethinking Criminology(ies) through the […]
Library Boy Digitization of Older Canadian Parliamentary Publications CANLII Improvements Made to Legislative Materials SLAW Mobile access for Westlaw Canada Legal Informatics Charbonneau on Free Access to Law in the Era of User-Generated Content
This report describes the digitization efforts of the Library of Parliamentary and was recently posted to their web site and blogged about yesterday by "Library Boy" (aka Michel-Adrien Sheppard, Supreme Court Reference Librarian). "The goal [of the working paper] is to help inform the development of a coherent strategy amongst the various stakeholders to digitize, […]