A workshop on the Law.gov Project, a U.S.-based law-related open government data effort, will be held 25 February 2010, at Columbia University Law School, in New York, New York, USA.
Speakers are scheduled to include:
- Professor Timothy Wu, of Columbia University Law School;
- Clay Shirky;
- A representative of Public.Resource.Org
Topics will include the accuracy and authenticity of digital legal information, and a proposed National Inventory of Primary Legal Materials (also called the National Inventory of Legal Materials).
To register, or for more information, please see the announcement.
This is the third public Law.gov event held in 2010. Previous events include:
- A panel entitled Law.gov: A Revolution in Legal Affairs, held on 12 January 2010 at Stanford Law School; and
- A panel about Law.gov (scroll down) held on January 22, 2010, at the workshop entitled Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency, at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy.
HT Stuart Sierra.
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