The mission of the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group is to successfully develop and implement a program to stabilize, preserve, and ensure permanent access to critical born - digital and
digitized legal materials on the World Wide Web.
Our own founder here at Slaw, Simon Fodden, was able to dig up a law school curriculum at Osgoode Hall from 1890 due to a project
digitizing legal material.
In addition to
digitizing legal materials LLMC Digital has a longstanding commitment to preserving the original print — «the original paper blocks of scanned books are preserved in ideal dark - archive space leased by LLMC in salt mines in Kansas.».
Initially, preservation was accomplished using microfiche, but when the digital age began LLMC became LLMC Digital and began
digitizing legal materials and making them available and searchable at low cost.
Not exact matches
One of the shortcomings with the CRL / JSTOR partnership is that there are no active Canadian partners; nor is there any conscious effort specifically to
digitize and preserve law journals or other
legal materials.
Fortunately, there are many initiatives at various stages of implementation to
digitize older Canadian
legal material.
I have in the past hoped for good (or better) interfaces to the massive amounts of older Canadian
legal materials being
digitized on the Internet Archive.
Legal publishers have digitized and made available online many Canadian primary legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary materials lag be
Legal publishers have
digitized and made available online many Canadian primary
legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary materials lag be
legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary
materials lag behind.
Most of the digitization initiatives described by Lyonette in her article have been organized and are being funded by academic, research or national libraries, so it's perhaps not surprising that the emphasis has been on
digitizing «books»; consequently, if any inherently
legal materials are included in the collections, it's by chance, and they are secondary sources, not primary sources of law.
An additional impediment to
legal research in the Internet Archive is that the
materials have been
digitized and can only be retrieved as «volumes» and not as discrete «documents»; i.e., you can find and retrieve v. 1 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario 1914, but it's time - consuming getting to p. 317 of that volume if you're looking specifically for the Succession Duty Act, RSO 1914, c 24 (though once there, you can easily bookmark the page).