{"id":148,"date":"2010-09-24T14:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T19:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/24\/report-from-glin-conference-on-promoting-global-open-access\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T19:36:54","slug":"report-from-glin-conference-on-promoting-global-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/24\/report-from-glin-conference-on-promoting-global-open-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from GLIN conference on promoting global open access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ifla.org\/VII\/s3\/conf\/1korea-e.htm\" title=\"National Assembly Library of Republic of Korea\">National Assembly Library of the Republic of Korea<\/a> hosted the joint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glin.gov\/search.action\" title=\"Global Legal Information Network\">GLIN<\/a>\/International Legal Information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifla.org\/en\/events\/international-conference-for-promoting-legal-information-service-to-the-parliament\" title=\"Conference\">Conference<\/a> from September 6-10, 2010 in Seoul, Korea.\u00a0 The theme of the conference was &#8220;The Future of Legal Information Service: Promoting the Global Open Access.&#8221;\u00a0 Some 22 countries presented reports on how they post laws and court decisions (and sometimes legal literature) online as part of the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), the infrastructure run by the Library of Congress, but with decentralized local workstations.\u00a0 The process is government to government, transferring authenticated official legal information.\u00a0 GLIN has been particularly useful in using technology and a common platform\/search engine\/thesaurus to help emerging countries in Latin America and Africa make their laws available online.\u00a0 Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Kuwait, and others are major contributors to GLIN.\u00a0 The slides from my presentation at the conference on &#8220;Digitizing the World&#8217;s Laws: Evolution and Revolution&#8221; are available <a href=\"http:\/\/library2.lawschool.cornell.edu\/temp\/Claire\/digitizing%20world%20laws%202010%20Seoul%203.ppt\" title=\"Presentation slides\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 For more on the conference, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glin2010.go.kr\/eng\/\" title=\"GLIN 2010 Directors Meeting\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly Library of the Republic of Korea hosted the joint GLIN\/International Legal Information Conference from September 6-10, 2010 in Seoul, Korea.\u00a0 The theme of the conference was &#8220;The Future of Legal Information Service: Promoting the Global Open Access.&#8221;\u00a0 Some 22 countries presented reports on how they post laws and court decisions (and sometimes <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/24\/report-from-glin-conference-on-promoting-global-open-access\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4537],"tags":[618,638,619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}