[Asis-l] Blog Preservation & The Future of Today's Legal Scholarship

[richards1000 at comcast.net]

Cross-posted; please excuse any duplication

Colleagues:

On July 25, 2009, Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown Law Library are holding a symposium entitled "The Future of Today's Legal Scholarship," http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ftls/ , one of the goals of which is to develop a uniform standard for preserving scholarly blogs.  Laura E. Campbell of LC and Linda Frueh of the Internet Archive are scheduled to participate.  All are welcome to the symposium, which will be held in honor of the late Bob Oakley.  The full announcement appears below.

Robert Richards


The Future of Today's Legal Scholarship:
A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley
July 25, 2009
Georgetown University Law Center
Georgetown Law Library
About The Future of Today's Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley

The time to debate the role of blogs in legal scholarship has passed. As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, one of our oldest and most conservative disciplines has clearly embraced the era of electronic publishing. Blogging has indeed transformed legal scholarship. Now it's time to move the dialogue forward.

The Future of Today's Legal Scholarship is a symposium that brings together academic bloggers, law librarians, and experts in preservation to tackle the bigger, more imperative challenges that will influence legal scholarship and democratic access to legal information for generations to come.

We must determine how to prioritize, collect, archive, preserve, and ensure reliable long-term access to the burgeoning amount of legal scholarship being published through new, informal channels on the Web.

The Future of Today's Legal Scholarship aims to accomplish this objective through non-conventional means. This symposium is an active, idea-based exchange inviting the participation and contribution of attendees alongside that of expert presenters and panelists.

This unique symposium will seek answers to the questions:

   1. How can quality academic scholarship reliably be discovered?
   2. How can future researchers be assured of perpetual access to the information currently available in blogs?
   3. How can any researcher be confident that documents posted to blogs are genuine?

The symposium will include a working group break-out session to create a uniform standard for preservation of blogs, a document to be shared by bloggers and librarians alike.

For more information about The Future of Today's Legal Scholarship, contact:

Jennifer Locke Davitt
Head of Faculty Services
Georgetown Law Library
(202) 662-9145
jnl8 at law.georgetown.edu

or

Kumar Percy Jayasuriya
Associate Librarian for Patron Services
Georgetown Law Library
(202) 662-9151
kumarj at law.georgetown.edu
 

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Robert C. Richards, Jr., J.D.*, M.S.L.I.S., M.A.
Law Librarian & Legal Information Consultant
Philadelphia, PA
richards1000 at comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliography.htm
* Member New York bar, retired status.
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