AALL Leadership on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age
State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources
Are government-hosted legal resources on the Web official and capable of being considered authentic? The groundbreaking State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources, published by AALL in March 2007, reveals that a significant number of state online legal resources are considered to be official but that states have not yet implemented ready authentication by standard methods. States are increasingly moving to an online only environment for some of their core legal resources, which makes these findings particularly alarming.
State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources Full Report [PDF]
Introduction
Executive Summary
Findings
State Reports
Appendices
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Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age: AALL National Summit
To address the authentication issue, AALL convened a National Summit on Authentication of Digital Legal Information in Chicago on April 20-21, 2007. Approximately fifty delegates from the judiciary, the legal community, state governments, and interested organizations participated, along with AALL leaders. They discussed the findings of the Report and explored legal and technological solutions to ensure that state online legal resources are authenticated and trustworthy.
For an outline of various aspects of the authentication issue, see the agenda and presentations from the Summit which are provided below.
National Summit Agenda
- Print vs. Digital – Assumptions and Differences – Professor Robert Berring
- Session One: AALL’s State-By-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources
- Session Two: The Technological Solutions for Best Practices
- Session Three: The Legal Solutions
- Closing Remarks
Photographs of Delegates at the National Summit
"AALL Reaches the Tipping Point in National Leadership on Digital Authentication," AALL Spectrum, July 2007, at 6.
Resources on the Challenges of Digital Authentication since the Summit
AALL is committed to working with other organizations to ensure the authentication and preservation of online legal resources. We are pleased with the increased state, national and international interest in seeking solutions as a result of AALL’s Authentication Report and National Summit.
Progress on Digital Authentication
Articles
For further information, please contact:
Mary Alice Baish
Director Government Relations Office
Georgetown University Law Library
111 G Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-1417
202/662-9200
baish@law.georgetown.edu
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