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Comment on Version 0.8 Released by Eric Pugh

Eric Pugh — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:55:12 +0000

We’ve been very proud of our involvement with The State Decoded. While I am not sure we have been able to get the platform to the point where you can ask a question in complete layman’s terms: “Can I own a tiger in Virginia?” and return the exact portion of the state code that deals with exotic animals, we’ve definitely improved the search usability. Maybe next year?

Comment on New Site: San Francisco Decoded by Brett

Brett — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:11:36 +0000

The SF charter link appears to be pointing to the business code data:
http://charter.sanfranciscocode.org/
http://business.sanfranciscocode.org/

Comment on Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good by Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:01:21 +0000

Probably not what you’d like to hear, but Westlaw and Lexis should definitely look into adding such a tool to their services.

I’m quite happy to hear that! This project is open source—they could use The State Decoded to accomplish that. :) I support better legal tools, whether for the general public or for law firms.

Comment on Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good by Josh Smith

Josh Smith — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:48:05 +0000

From a legal researcher’s standpoint …

As long as the definition scraper gave citations to the definition and stated its limitations, an imperfect tool would be worthwhile. Probably not what you’d like to hear, but Westlaw and Lexis should definitely look into adding such a tool to their services.

Comment on Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good by Kyle Mitchell

Kyle Mitchell — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:18:34 +0000

Hear, hear!

Comment on Bulk Downloads of Five State Codes by Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:23:45 +0000

An open government group in New Jersey has been seeking to put the statutes online, so I’ve connected them with John. Thanks!

Comment on Bulk Downloads of Five State Codes by Robert Richards

Robert Richards — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:25:45 +0000

Hi Waldo: Great post. I just learned that NJ Statutes are scrapable, with the current version of the entire code downloadable as an ASCII file. John Joergensen describes it in his CALI talk: http://conference.cali.org/2013/sessions/new-jersey-statutes-online-little-better Also feel free to ask him; he’s in our google group now. His contact info is here: http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/john-p-joergensen

Comment on No Love from LexisNexis by Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:52:11 +0000

I suppose that's possible, Cushing. I think they sell an awfully large number of volumes each year, but perhaps they function primarily as office decorations at this point? That said, making the TOCs look better would be a pretty trivial task. That's something a temp could knock out in an afternoon. (My wife used to temp for Lexis, many years ago. At least then they relied pretty heavily on temp labor for this sort thing.) On Twitter, Erin Monaghan suggests that this simply a holdover from the days when the Michie Company printed the Code of Virginia. (Disclaimer: My father-in-law worked for Michie.) They may have done it in this manner, for lack of any competition or demand for improvement, and now Lexis would rather leave it as-is than face complaints from attorneys that a thing is different than it was and, therefore, bad. As both an origin story and as reason for not improving it, this is better than anything I can manage to think of.