Eran Kahana, Esq., of Stanford CodeX: Center for Legal Informatics, was recently interviewed about his research on artificial intelligence and law, by David Levine for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s Hearsay Culture radio program.
Click here for the podcast of the program.
Click here for Eran’s posts about his research, at the Stanford CodeX Blog.
HT Eran Kahana
An interview with Dr. Núria Casellas of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School (LII), entitled Legally Linked: Linked Open Data Principles Applied To Code Of Federal Regulations, has been published at semanticweb.com.
In this interview, Dr. Casellas discusses the application of Linked Data in Title 21 of LII’s new version of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. In that title, users can search for “brand names for drugs (such as Tylenol), and receiv[e] the generic name for the drug (acetaminophen) as a suggested term.” LII plans to incorporate “definitions, obligations and vocabularies, and product information to enhance search and retrieval, and also visualization of the information.”
Dr. Casellas also describes a plan to “link[] materials from the Drug Bank open data drug and drug target database, which has been transformed into RDF and made available as a SPARQL endpoint, to Title 21 in the CFR, and vice vers[a].” The article notes that LII “is developing a SKOS-based thesaur[us] derived from the terms used in the CFR, and extracting definitions and obligations.” LII also plans to include in its CFR metadata “product codes from sources such as the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).”
For more information, please see the complete article.
Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org discussed the Law.gov legal open government data project with Hari Sreenivasan on PBS NewsHour on 8 September 2010.
Carl also gave the keynote address, about reform of U.S. federal government information technology (IT) practices, at the 2010 Gov 2.0 Summit on 7 September 2010. Carl’s keynote may be of particular interest to the legal informatics community because the address focuses on the U.S. National Archive and Records Administration’s ERA: Electronic Records Archives system, which is intended to be the principal platform for preserving digital U.S. federal legal information. Click here for Carl’s congressional testimony about ERA.
Carl’s address also calls for the U.S. federal government to require use of open IT systems, as the Government of India is also considering.
An interview has been posted with Harlan Yu of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), about the development of RECAP, the controversy over charging fees for access to court records through PACER, privacy respecting court records, the Law.gov legal open government data project, Mr. Yu’s Ph.D. research, and his presentation entitled Government Data and the Invisible Hand (click here for video) given 7 September 2010 at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, DC.
The interview was posted at O’Reilly Radar, and was conducted by Alex Howard of O’Reilly Media.
Dr. Peter Jackson, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Technology at Thomson Reuters, discusses the new WestlawNext computer-assisted legal research system, and the current state of the art in legal information systems, in a very interesting interview with Jason Wilson of Jones McClure, published today on Slaw, the Canadian legal blog.
