Law in the Internet Society

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 Moreover, cases that are published do not possess the basic characteristics of open documents. Hence, attorneys are obliged to pay thousands of dollars to use services such as LexisNexis? to find cases and learn about doctrinal trends. Even cases in LexisNexis? are not easy to be downloaded in bulk. However, this entrapment of knowledge is currently being fought by the Harvard Law Library. Its project, Case Law, has digitalized more than 40 million pages of court decisions, created metadata for each volume, scanned every page, and used OCR to extract the text of every case. Moreover, it provides API and bulk data services, enabling its users to develop more applications (e.g. H20 enables law professors to create casebooks).

Finally, the comprehensibility of information could be boosted by processing the data and making it visual. Visual information, in contrast to paper or text on a website, has been shown to be more appealing and make information easier to understand, thus enhancing its accessibility and generating more engagement by the citizens.

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