Reinforcing the Infrastructure of Legal Research Through Court-Authored Metadata
112 Law Libr. J. 5 (2020)
41 Pages Posted: 29 May 2019 Last revised: 6 Dec 2020
Date Written: May 17, 2019
Abstract
This article examines how the role of the court system in publishing legal information
should be viewed in a digital, online environment. It then argues that courts should
author detailed, standardized metadata for their written work product. This practice
would result in immediate, identifiable improvements in free and low-cost case law
databases, and may beneficially impact the next generation of AI-powered research
tools as well.
Keywords: case law reporting, metadata, linked data, artificial intelligence, litigation analytics, legal information, case law publication, case law classification, citators, Semantic Web
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