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It's already been 3 months since our first newsletter! See below for the latest legal information news, blog articles with top tips & tricks and important Lexum info.
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Extracting Metadata From the Body of Documents
 Getting usable HTML and PDF files out of original Word documents is one of the first steps to take in the operation of a legal information website, but it is not enough in itself. In addition to the full text of documents, modern legal information systems also need to be fed more or less metadata.
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Scanning and processing decisions for the Law Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
 The Law Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador provided funding to make historical court decisions from this province rendered before 2003 freely available on the CanLII website. Lexum identified the decisions, scanned them, generated word processing versions, converted them to HTML and PDF, and published the resulting files online.
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Supporting Accessibility with WCAG 2.0 Level AA Compatibility
Facilitating the publishing process is not the only benefit resulting from an optimal usage of Microsoft Word. Surprisingly enough, it can also contribute to generating more accessible files, in other words, files readable online by persons with disabilities.
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Munro on the Revolution of the Neutral Citation
Early in my career, when I was a freshly hatched legal editor, I pored over the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (the McGill Guide). It answered many of my questions about the finer points of legal citation...
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Canadian Lawyer Mag highlights Lexum's contribution to the Legal Research Chair.
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Alberta Courts no longer publishing decisions on their website. Now redirecting visitors to CanLII.
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Creating Mobile-Friendly Websites
Another unexpected advantage of structured data is the flexibility it provides in relation with online display. The popularity of the mobile web has contributed to multiplying the number of devices of various screen sizes accessing the Internet, including legal information websites.
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Converting Word Files for the Web
Generating cleaner, more structured Word files is one thing. Converting them into file formats adapted for the web is another. Legal information websites require HTML and PDF versions that need to be converted in some way from the original Word files. Of course anyone can use the “Save as” feature of Word for this purpose, but doing so creates two difficulties.
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The Decisions of the Chief Military Judge are Now Made Available with Decisia
In order to promote access to courts martial results and decisions, the Department of National Defence integrated Decisia to the Chief Military Judges (CMJ) website. The new decision website not only provides information about rendered decisions, but also includes details about ongoing courts martial.
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