The purpose of the survey is to evaluate whether or not urban Canadians are ready for the digital afterlife. An online survey composed of twenty-one (21) questions was conducted to establish 1) digital assets awareness, 2) digital afterlife awareness and 3) digital afterlife preparedness. Results were obtained thanks to descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and hypothesis […] Read more
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Emma
Elliott
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Why you Should Move Beyond PDF for your Technical Manuals
If you’re producing a reference document of some sort, whether it’s professional documentation, a product manual or collective agreements, you’re most likely making it available to your stakeholders in PDF format.You know you could do better, but you have stuck to PDF until now because a portion of your user base consistently tells you they […] Read more
Marc-André
Morissette
How Fast Is your Search Engine?
The search engine is at the heart of most information management systems as it is often the principal conduit by which users navigate to the information they are looking for. As a leading provider of information management systems, Lexum has spent a lot of time developing a search engine platform that it applies to all its products. Our search engine provides […] Read more
Jessica
Zita
Researching Niche Legal Issues
Today, electronic data is generated at a rate and volume exponentially faster than anything seen previously. We have brilliant tools like CanLII at our fingertips to access all of it. But CanLII is best navigated by lawyers and legal professionals who understand the nature of the relationships between documents and what search terms to look […] Read more
Lexum
The Northwest Territories Courts Now Using Decisia
Lexum is excited to share that Northwest Territories (NWT) Courts are now using Decisia to run their decisions website. Decisia was selected to improve access to decisions from the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, the Territorial Court, as well as the Youth Justice Court. Users can access all NWT Court decisions from the official web site of the courts . In upgrading from its former platform to Decisia, the new and improved NWT Courts decisions website feature s : Several new search fields under the advanced search option Previews in the search results list Highlighting of keywords in the... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Why Labour Union should Adopt Electronic Collective Bargaining Agreements (e-CBA)
Over the last few months Lexum has been contacting labour unions and professional associations, discussing how its Qweri solution for text-heavy documents can improve the handling of their collective bargaining agreements (CBA). Labour union staff includes many power-users of legal information websites operated by Lexum, such as CanLII, but only recently did Lexum launch an […] Read more
Lexum
The Rwanda Law Reports Now Available Online with Decisia
The Judiciary of Rwanda recently started to post decisions included in the Rwanda Law Reports on their own website using Decisia. The published judgments are selected among decisions rendered by Rwanda Courts, including the Supreme Court, the High Court and lower instances. They are published in the country’s language, Kinyarwanda, and will be added in French and English in the near future. Lexum... Read more
Emma
Elliott
Legal aspects of accessibility and usability of online public services in Quebec and Canada
This article discusses the legal requirements which must be taken into account in providing public online services to individuals with a low level of literacy. It will focus on two aspects: the accessibility and usability of these services. The authors propose a twofold theoretical analysis based on two issues raised by government objectives for improving […] Read more
Lexum
Legal aspects of accessibility and usability of online public services in Quebec and Canada
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10660-015-9186-3 This article discusses the legal requirements which must be taken into account in providing public online services to individuals with a low level of literacy. It will focus on two aspects: the accessibility and usability of these services. The authors propose a twofold theoretical analysis based on two issues raised by government objectives... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Keeping Track of Freely Available Legal Information
Websites providing free access to legal information have come to play a major role in the day-to-day work of legal practitioners. For a majority of Canadian lawyers legal, research now starts with free access websites and is completed by the use of commercial databases only when required. No wonder that the CanLII website serves between 200,000 […] Read more