AALS Section Program -- Law and Computers
Friday, January 7, 1994
Publishing Online - Why and How?
Online Publishing
Access
Hypertext/media
How?
Unix Tools
Next Generation Tools
World Wide Web
Access
Benefits
- Cheap
- Easy
- Search Capabilities
- High-speed Information Retrieval
- Cross Platform
- Large Corpus of Information / Audience
- Data Integrity
- Paperless
Problems
- Cheap
- Easy
- Search Capabilities
- High-speed Information Retrieval
- Cross Platform
- Large Corpus of Information / Audience
- Data Integrity
- Paperless
Hypertext and Hypermedia
Bush - 1945 "As We May Think"
Ted Nelson
Linear Texts v. Hypertext
Educational Uses
How?
First Generation Tools
BBS, Compuserve, America Online, etc.
Listservers, EMail
FTP, Telnet
Next Generation Tools
First Examples - Gopher
- Menu Based
- Some Value Added - Bookmarks, Image files, Searches
- Veronica
- Runs On Practically Anything
WorldWideWeb
[For an example see the WWW server at Will Sadler's law school. Ed.]
Creating and Designing Online Documents
1. Design Team
- Technical Expert
- Subject Matter Expert
- Instructional Design Expert
2. Getting the Text Online
- Scanning v. Typing
- Formatting and Markup - What tools are there?
3. Hardware
Will Sadler
The IU School of Law has set up a WWW server in order to do most of the things Mr. Sadler discusses. The school has plans to provide access to the Internet and its WWW based information for all IU alumni. The school will also be hosting several mailing lists for a variety of subject areas, most related to its community. It currently offers a publicly accessible account running LYNX through which anyone with Telnet can access the Web.
Will Sadler has been working as the Systems Coordinator at the IU School of Law in Bloomington for the last 4 years while simultaneouly pursuing a totally non-computer oriented degree in Historical Musicology at the IU School of Music. He first became interested in Internet based legal resources while trying to manage thirty or so modems being used to access Westlaw and Lexis, none having the same configuration or baud rate.
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