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Check and Visualize your RDF documents: Enter a URI or paste an RDF/XML document into the text field above. A 3-tuple (triple) representation of the corresponding data model as well as an optional graphical visualization of the data model will be displayed.

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12 days ago

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OCLC Changes its Rules for Use of Records in WorldCat: Library Community Pushback Through Blogs and Cultures of Resistance / by Elizabeth McKenzie

:: SSRN This article examines the role of the bloggers in pushing back against the unilateral decision of the OCLC board of directors. The different reactions of bloggers, and the variety of responders, the cultural differences between librarians and hackers or programmers is examined. The paper also considers how different parties’ understanding and misunderstanding of community values affected their success or lack of success in convincing the blogosphere community of their message.

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february 2012

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A Medieval Book and Early-Modern Law: Bracton's Authority and Application in the Common Law C.1550-1640 / by Ian Williams

:: SSRN This article considers the place of the thirteenth-century book known as Bracton in the early-modern common law. Using methods from the history of reading, it examines both the uses made of Bracton and the evidence to be found in the surviving copies of the first printed edition. It addresses the impediments to the use of Bracton, the printing of the first edition, the text’s readership and its place in the early-modern common-law canon.

The second half of the article ... Bracton was a recognized source for criminal law and there is some evidence of impact on the law of evidence, servitudes and a little for contract law. An examination of the early-modern law of treason shows that Bracton had an important role in changing the concept of treason from a crime against the monarch to something like the much broader classical crimen laesae maiestatis. The article demonstrates that legal historians should be concerned to identify not only what lawyers read, but how they read it.

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february 2012

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Law's Slow Violence / by Dayna Scott

:: SSRN Slow violence, in Nixon’s conception [Rob Nixon, "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor"], is “a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all.”

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january 2012

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A Novice Lawyer at the Art Gallery / by Veronica Ashenhurst

:: SSRN This article reflects, via the medium of art, on a learning transition in legal writing. Specifically, it analyzes the new lawyer’s transition from the legal writing genre of office memorandum to the legal writing genre of advocacy brief. To emphasize key qualities of the legal writing genres memo and brief, the article presents two paintings, by Léon Bonvin and Camille Pissarro respectively. Viewed together, the paintings also emphasize the concept of transition. ... The article aims to make the writing transition from memo to brief more accessible to the novice lawyer, especially the visual learner. More broadly, it aims to encourage reflective professional dialogue between expert and novice lawyers about writing skills, as legal writing becomes an increasingly vital means by which lawyers communicate.

legal_writing art lawyers Ashenhurst 2011 from delicious
january 2012

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Orphan Works: Definitional Issues / by David Hansen

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"This paper outlines responses to two definitional questions that arise in the context of orphan works: (1) exactly what is the “orphan works” problem?, and (2) what is the size of this problem? The answers to these two questions are central to understanding how proposed solutions work to remedy the situation. While the most common descriptions of the orphan works problem focus on unlocatable copyright owners, others have framed the issue in terms of a broader problem of market failure. This paper explores both formulations of the problem. Similarly, the size of the orphan works problem can be viewed from many angles. Rough approximations of the size of the problem for certain types of works (e.g., published monographs) are available, but comprehensive data on the number and value of orphan works do not currently exist for a wide variety of works and the uses to which those works might be put. This paper suggests areas in which further research on these issues is needed."

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The Use of Non-MARC Metadata in AALL Libraries: A Baseline Study / Robert Richards

This article reports results of a recent survey of AALL libraries respecting non-MARC metadata practices, with a focus on interoperability. Results cover types of collections described with non-MARC metadata, as well as metadata standards, platforms, and tools. Results suggest substantial, though incomplete, awareness among respondents of metadata interoperability and the factors that enable it.

MARC law_libraries interoperability metadata Richards 2011 from delicious
january 2012

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LegalRuleML: XML-Based Rules and Norms / Monica Palmirani, Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo, Said Tabet, Harold Boley and Adrian Paschke

This paper provides an extension of RuleML called LegalRuleML for fostering the characteristics of legal knowledge and to permit its full usage in legal reasoning and in the business rule domain. LegalRuleML encourages the effective exchange and sharing of such semantic information between legal documents, business rules, and software applications.

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january 2012

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