Comments on: Radical Trust and Legal Information http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=329 in perpetual beta Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mikhail Koulikov http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-652 Mikhail Koulikov Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:39:32 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=329#comment-652 <i>Can someone please explain to me what steps that free information providers like Justia, the Legal Information Institute and Public Resource – or even Google Scholar – need to be taking so that they are given the same respect as Lexis and Westlaw?</i> At least in my mind, mostly, they just need to be able to stick around for another dozen years. Right now, good as they are, they are still at the 'good idea' stage, but the response they get is generally along the lines of 'why should I trust a good idea with five years of track record over a good idea with thirty years of track record.' Can someone please explain to me what steps that free information providers like Justia, the Legal Information Institute and Public Resource – or even Google Scholar – need to be taking so that they are given the same respect as Lexis and Westlaw?

At least in my mind, mostly, they just need to be able to stick around for another dozen years. Right now, good as they are, they are still at the ‘good idea’ stage, but the response they get is generally along the lines of ‘why should I trust a good idea with five years of track record over a good idea with thirty years of track record.’

]]> By: Glassmeyer on Radical Trust & Legal Information « Legal Informatics Blog http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-569 Glassmeyer on Radical Trust & Legal Information « Legal Informatics Blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:13:00 +0000 http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=329#comment-569 [...] Glassmeyer on Radical Trust & Legal Information By legalinformatics Sarah Glassmeyer, Reference and Access Services Librarian at the University of Kentucky College of Law, has written an interesting post about the authentication of digital legal information, entitled Radical Trust an.... [...] [...] Glassmeyer on Radical Trust & Legal Information By legalinformatics Sarah Glassmeyer, Reference and Access Services Librarian at the University of Kentucky College of Law, has written an interesting post about the authentication of digital legal information, entitled Radical Trust an…. [...]

]]>