1. Global Legal Information Network
Law via the Internet th Conference Paris November 2004
Session 2: The Dissemination of Law:
The Distribution and Convergence of Network Standards
Dr. Rubens Medina
Chair, Executive Council (GLIN)
The Law Librarian, Library of Congress, USA
This is the introduction screen for the GLIN briefing for the Advances I Digital Libraries 1999 Conference in Baltimore, May 19 & 20.
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2. Aspects of GLIN What GLIN is Guiding principles Membership
Non-Commercial (Non-profit)
Global.
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3. Content of GLIN Full texts Primary sources Secondary sources
Original official languages
Metadata in at least two languages.
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4. Reliable From official texts only Original official language(s)
Current
Complete.
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5. Benefits of Membership
National / International oriented design
Avoid duplicate efforts & investment
Examples of legislation / regulations on subjects of interest
Reliability
Shared standards
Multilingual approach.
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6. New Functionality ( January 2005)
Four modules completed
Cross-module searching
Modules linked
User account administration
Statistics and reports.
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7. New User Interface Contemporary appearance Intuitive & user friendly
Web pages in multiple languages.
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8. New Thesaurus Fully integrated Input from members Multilingual.
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9. New Multilingual Capabilities
Multilingual web pages
Multilingual input
Multilingual search.
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10. GLIN Future Releases Full-text searching in Arabic,
Chinese, Korean and Russian.
Legal thesauri in all supported languages.
Cross-searching in all supported languages.
Saved searches and alert service for members.
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