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- Title
Litchfield Unbound: Unlocking Legal History with Metadata, Digitization, and Digital Tools.
- Authors
Eiseman, Jason; Bagnall, Whitney; Kellett, Cate; Lam, Caitlyn
- Abstract
Notebooks written by students at the Litchfield Law School are among the primary sources for understanding the influence of English law in this country. The notebooks provide rich documentation of how the common law and elements of English law were presented, explained, and compared with American law in a formal classroom setting during the Early Republic. The digitization project described here, the first large-scale digitization initiative undertaken at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, with the cooperation of the Litchfield Historical Society, is intended to organize, describe, and analyze those notebooks with a web site containing a database, bibliography, inventory, and links to images. The Litchfield student notebook project was intended not only to create digital surrogates of important historical sources, but also to inform future digital legal history projects at the Lillian Goldman Law Library.
- Subjects
DIGITIZATION; LEGAL history; METADATA; WEB portals; BRITISH law; HISTORY associations; YALE Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library; COMPUTER network resources; HISTORY
- Publication
Law & History Review, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 4, p831
- ISSN
0738-2480
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1017/S0738248016000328