Overview

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. Technical Challenges

Introduction

The Internet is becoming increasingly important in the legal world, not only as a subject of interest, but as a medium for accessing legal information. There have been several initiatives to put public law online, one notable effort being the Tasmanian EnAct project. However, until recently, the field of U.S. public law has been limited to commercial services.

Enter the Legal Information Institute (LII). The LII aims to provide legal information about U.S. law over the World Wide Web for no charge. However, the U.S. Code in particular has been a difficult resource to provide accurately, due to inconsistencies in its format and certain administrative issues with the provision of a electronic source text by the House of Representatives.

The goal of the LDMS project is to take the elecronic source text and convert it to XML, creating a consistent, metadata-rich source document that can be used to generate various views, including (for example) HTML, PostScript, or plain text.

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