legal informatics

deep link

A deep link is a webpage link from one website to another website that bypasses the second website’s homepage and goes straight to an internal page on the second website. According to Adjust’s Mobile Marketing Glossary, the purpose of a deep...

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), is a federal statute that addresses a number of copyright issues created by the use of new technology and the Internet including digital rights management (methods for stopping infringement), and...

expunge

To expunge means to destroy, obliterate, or strike out records or information in files, computers, and other depositories. A well-known example of this is the expungement of criminal records. The majority of states allow people to have their...

HTML

HTML, the abbreviation of Hypertext Markup Language, is an internet markup language that governs the structure of online pages. It is one of the most fundamental components of any website. It was designed by the British scientist Sir Tim...

HTTP

HTTP, the abbreviation of HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the communications protocol for transferring data over web servers on the Internet or on a local network (intranet). It's part of the Internet protocol suite, and it defines the...

hyperlink

A hyperlink, sometimes called a link, is any component of a webpage that connects two different webpages or two different locations of the same website. Hyperlinks are sometimes a different color than the rest of the text (e.g. they are blue...

IP address

An IP address is a unique identification number that is attributed to a device that is connected to a computer network, using the internet. IP stands for “Internet Protocol” which refers to the rules governing the format of data sent through...

legal informatics

Legal informatics is a general term describing information science and technology applied to law. Much of the focus in this field is on how information science and technology can advance the study and practice of law. Some examples are: the...

link

A link, also called a hyperlink, is any component of a webpage that connects two different webpages or two different locations of the same website. Links are sometimes a different color than the rest of the text, or underlined to indicate...

metadata

According to 44 U.S. Code - Public Printing and Documents - § 3502 (19), metadata is the “structural or descriptive information about data such as content, format, source, rights, accuracy, provenance, frequency, periodicity, granularity,...

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