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Library of Congress Chooses LII for Legislative Information Reorganization

By David

The Library of Congress is updating and reorganizing the way it stores and supplies Congressional legislative information and materials digitally.  The US Library of Congress has selected the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University (LII) to help develop new methods to preserve, analyze, organize, and present Congressional legislative information and materials digitally.

 The official press release states, ?This project introduces the idea of a model that reflects the life cycle of legislation?a significantly different model than the one used in traditional library materials.?

 The materials selected for this update include bills, Presidential documents, committee reports, public laws, and the United States Code.  The project includes the THOMAS website as well as the Legislative Information System (LIS) which is used internally by the Senate and the House of Representatives.

 Tom Bruce, Director of the LII has stated the goal,   ?Our aim is to learn everything we can about what Congress, government, and citizens want to do with this information and design an architecture, centered on practical use of the Semantic Web, that will allow them not only to do those things, but things nobody?s thought of yet.?

 We look forward to the new sites as they are developed. Stay tuned. (Post-DEL)

Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on January 07, 2011 (boomark / email).