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The Web Is Our Database
Recently I’ve been playing around with a linked data application called Callimachus.* So far I’ve successfully installed the program on my DigitalOcean server and hope to be able to report positively...
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URN LEX Namespace for Sources of Law
One promising metadata project dealing with the legal domain is URN:Lex (A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Sources of Law (LEX). A proposal was submitted to the Internet Engineering Task...
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Where’s the Lawhacker Website?
I am an avid reader of the website Lifehacker. Every day, there are new posts on an incredible range of topics with the single goal of making life easier. Yesterday, for example, there were hacks on...
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Google and the Right to Be Forgotten
A Spanish citizen has compelled Google to delete links to online newspaper articles that described the person’s debt problems in the 1990s. The European Court of Justice held that the information was...
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Google’s New Video Quality Report Tool
Google’s new Video Quality Report tool allows you to compare video streaming capabilities between local ISPs. By viewing this report, either at home or at work, you are able to see when the prime video...
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Linked Data: Visualizing for Navigation?
From the start, I’ve wondered how we will navigate in a linked data environment. How will we explore an information space where every data element is linked to every other data element? How will we...
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Law Enforcement Access to ISP Subscriber Information
The Supreme Court of Canada has released its judgment in the Spencer case. It held that the police had no legal right to ask an ISP for subscriber information, as that would violate the subscriber’s...
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CALL-L Listserv and Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries List (CALL-L) is an e-mail discussion list fostering an interest in and discussion on law librarianship in Canada. A message went out today from CALL-L list...
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Sub Nomine
Sub Nomine the Sub Nom rule is one of those delightful pieces of legal Latin that I quite enjoy. I like that two words in Latin can effectively sum up a legal thought that takes at least a sentence or...
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The Duty Not to Find …
On the heels of the European Court of Justice’s decision (discussed on Slaw) to require Google to suppress links to particular web sites that had ‘irrelevant and outdated’ personal information about a...
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