[Commons-Law] Logistical Issues in Setting up a Free OmnibusLegal Portal

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Lawrence Liang said on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:37:43AM -0800,:

 > certain of the route of campaigning the state for it.
 > If someone is willinhg to go ahead with the
 > campaigning with the state idea, suprb, you have my
 > absoulte support.

Speaking of State activities,  few days back, the MIT (www.mit.gov.in)
called for an opinion on framing rules  u/s 87 of IT Act on formats to
be used in public communication.  Apparently, we missed out on it.

Importance  of  the rules  is  that  if the  govt  uses  closed /  non
standard  / proprietary  /  encumbered (by  patents,  etc) formats  to
provide data, public would be left high and dry.
 
 > then sure, but myt idea of database is not merely
 > that, the possibility that it  throws up of
 > collaborative and simultaneousd production of archives
 > in specialised areas is what interests me the most.

Once the info is available in digital format, the task of making it
available to specialised audience is quite easy.

But, if the US situation is any indicator, such services can be
provided free of cost if, and only if the provider is an academic
institute, or a government department. Private providers add value by
enabling easier cross reference searches (like decisions from other
jurisdictions, overruled decisions, etc).

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