Re: Canonical Legal and Legislative Uniform Resource Locators and Identifiers

Hi Adam,

Are you familiar with the European Case Law Identifier system? It may be useful to your research.

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_security/judicial_cooperation_in_civil_matters/jl0056_en.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Case_Law_Identifier

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On 2013-12-24, at 3:13 PM, Adam wrote:

> Open Government Community Group,
> 
> Greetings.  I would like to describe canonical legal and legislative uniform resource locators (URL), identifiers (URI) and hashtags.
> 
> Joe Carmel, a former Chief of the Legislative Computer Systems at the U.S. House of Representatives, broached the topic in 2010: 
> http://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2010/07/15/legislinkorg-simplified-human-readable-urls-for-legislative-citations/ and provided hyperlinks to resources including:
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-spinosa-urn-lex-01
> http://citability.org/
> http://www.legislink.org/
> http://thomas.loc.gov/home/handles/help.html
> 
> Legal blogging would be enhanced by such canonical URL’s.  With regard to legal blogs (blawgs), “the ranks of lawyer bloggers now include prominent judges, numerous law professors, nationally-recognized appellate lawyers and entire practice groups” (http://www.americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/legal_technology_resources/resources/articles/youraba0808.html) (http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/, http://www.loc.gov/law/find/web-archive/legal-blawgs.php).
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> Such canonical URL’s would convenience law schools, legal textbooks, and legal research.
> 
> Such canonical URL's would convenience encyclopedia users:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Law_citation_templates .
> 
> Pertinent topics include legal citation, analysis and bibliometrics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_citation,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_research_in_the_United_States#Citing_to_Legal_Documents,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_analysis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrics).
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> Multimedia content could be cited utilizing media fragment URI's (http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/), for instance C-SPAN content, and videos could utilize transcript and/or chapter video tracks for structure and nested structured to facilitate software-based selections of video clips at the granularity of sections, paragraphs and sentences of speech.
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> Pingback (http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback) can provide website users with features including navigation based upon what links to or cites content, documents, multimedia and to portions of documents and multimedia, including with typed hyperlinks. 
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> Websites can provide RSS feeds and saved searches, URL, email notifications and RSS feeds, including for searches about what links to or cites to content.  With pingback-based features, configurable at the convenience of bloggers linking to content, websites can facilitate enhanced navigation, content discovery of blogs and distributed blog-based forums for users.
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> Kind regards,
> 
> Adam Sobieski
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