The Office of Public Sector Information will be having a BarCamp around Recommendation 8 from the Power of Information Review on 12 January 2008. Recommendation 8 “To improve government’s responsiveness to demand for public sector information, by July 2008 OPSI should create a web-based channel to gather and assess requests for publication of public sector [...]

The JISC IPR Consultancy was started in October 2005 to provide expert advice to JISC in the area of intellectual property rights. IPR Consultants Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim talked to Sara Hassen, JISC Communications Manager, in a Skype interview about the interesting challenges we will face related to IPR in the education sector associated [...]

HT to lo-fi librarian. Check out http://lawbore.net/, which is a collection of resources for law students at City University London.

In Glasgow. October 22nd and 23rd. I’m looking forward to: Cybermuseology: conveying culture Are new technologies useful tools for conveying culture? If you want to find out more about innovative solutions to disseminate knowledge related to collections, then this seminar is for you. Speakers will focus on online interactive applications to show how to convey [...]

Social networking, just for Texas lawyers. I got an invite to join Texas Bar Circle from the State Bar of Texas, of which I am a member. The service is a product of affinitycircles.com The invite states: The State Bar of Texas is excited to introduce Texas Bar Circle, a new networking tool. Texas Bar [...]

OwnTerms is a site that brings together some standard terms and conditions so that the public may easily get access to some boilerplate legal docs. From their site: OwnTerms is designed as a repository for “boilerplate” legal documents: those that every web site, startup, or entrepreneur needs but doesn’t want to draft in a lawyer [...]

Lawlink is a new social networking site that limits its members to licensed attorneys. It looks like from the sign up page that this is limited to the United States, but maybe they’ll expand a bit in the future. The “no non-lawyers allowed” policy is enforced through an application procedure where they check you out [...]