Ensuring Public Access to Digital Legal Information: To Be Discussed at iConference 2010

[NOTE: Updated on 9 February 2010 to link to slides from the presentations (HT @freegovinfo). Updated on 3 February 2010 to link to the abstract for the roundtable. HT @freegovinfo.]

Ensuring online public access to legal information will be discussed by Tom Bruce, co-founder and director of Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, at Roundtable Number 4, “Gone Today, Here Tomorrow: Assuring Access to Government Information in the Digital Age” (scroll down) (click here for the abstract for the roundtable), to be held 4 February 2010 at 3:45 p.m., at iConference 2010 [the conference of iSchools], at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library & Information Science, in Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Click here for slides from the presentations (HT @freegovinfo).

(Among the topics discussed by the panelists was the Law.gov legal open government data project).

Other roundtable panelists include:

• Cynthia Etkin of the U.S. Government Printing Office;
• James R. Jacobs of the Stanford University Library;
• Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation;
• ShinJoung Yeo of Stanford University Library.

HT @freegovinfo.

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