Latest Draft of “Best Practice Recommendations of Distance Learning for Legal Education 2.0 (2015-16)” | Working Group for Distance Learning in Legal Ed http://www.wgdlle.org/2015/03/08/latest-draft-of-best-practice-recommendations-of-distance-learning-for-legal-education-2-0-2015-16/
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Economist Thomas Piketty to speak at Harvard Law School March 6; discussion will be webcast live from 2-4 pm
Renowned economist Thomas Piketty, professor of Economics, EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics, will speak at Harvard Law School Friday, March 6, from 2-4 pm.
Piketty will debate his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Centurywith several Harvard faculty, including: Sven Beckert Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University;Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; and Stephen Marglin, Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics, Harvard University.
http://today.law.harvard.edu/ces-discussion-thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century/
The discussion will be live at http://media.fas.harvard.edu/core/live/hls-live.html on 3/6 at 2 PM ET.
Mellon foundation looking to fund next gen academic publishing projects
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e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is aggressively funding efforts to support new forms of academic publishing, which researchers say could further legitimize digital scholarship.
The foundation in May sent university press directors a request for proposals to a new grant-making initiative for long-form digital publishing for the humanities. In the e-mail, the foundation noted the growing popularity of digital scholarship, which presented an “urgent and compelling” need for university presses to publish and make digital work available to readers.
But the foundation quickly contrasted those opportunities with the economic realities facing many university presses. “These declines have made it challenging to find the resources that are needed to experiment with new digital work flows and publication models, and to create the business models and the marketing and discoverability strategies that are essential if electronic publication is to become sustainable and support scholarship in the 21st century,” the e-mail reads
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Piecing together publishing – Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/25/researchers-university-press-directors-emboldened-mellon-foundation-interest
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How Google Scholar Undercuts Jurisdictions Going Digital While It Could as Easily Support them « Citing Legally http://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=279
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The Tech Skills and Courses Google Recommends for Software Engineers : Lifehaker : http://lifehacker.com/the-tech-skills-and-courses-google-recommends-for-softw-1660157164?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
The Daily Beast: How Four Upstarts Built an Anti-Facebook. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw56W4xB8
Nice to know my problem has a name. Meet Extract-Transform-Load.
From ETL for America https://civicquarterly.com/article/etl-for-america/
Many of the problems governments confront with technology are fundamentally about data integration: taking the disparate data sets living in a variety of locations and formats (SQL Server databases, exports from ancient ERP systems and Excel spreadsheets on people’s desktops, for example) and getting them into a place and shape where they’re actually usable.
Among backend software engineers, these are generically referred to as ETL problems, or extract-transform-load operations.
In the case of court opinions the ETL problem is complicated by the fact that the data that comes from the courts is in PDF format and the courts do little beyond dumping it on websites and declaring it sort of published. I’m going to be taking a long look at the handling of the ETL problem in the other branches of government to see what’s going on there.