Lexum Newsletter, 2016 - vol. 8
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The Path From Print to Web Has Just Become Much Shorter
If you have print assets that you want to publish on the web, until now you had two options.. A couple of weeks ago, CanLII deployed a beta version featuring a third approach with respect to digitizing print assets. Since CanLII’s announcement, we (Lexum is a technology supplier for the CanLII site) have received quite a few questions on how it is done and what technology we use.... By Lexum
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State Administrative Decisions Census
This post includes preliminary results and findings from a survey of the status of online access to administrative decisions in the US.  This survey was conducted over the course of September 2016 and is based on and replicates the methodology developed by Sarah Glassmeyer for the State Legal Information Census published in 2015. ... By PIerre-Paul Lemyre
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What Users Do with Lexbox
Last year Lexum decided to explore a new approach aiming to improve legal research on free websites and making it easier to track over time. Lexbox has been in production for six months now (the initial Beta phase ended last April), and it is interesting to look at how users are actually appropriating this new product... By Pierre-Paul Lemyre
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Qweri 1.13: Introducing Customizable Metadata Fields
Lexum is pleased to announce Qweri 1.13. Here's what’s new: customizable metadata fields, improved Dashboard, speedier Admin, ...
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The Washington Public Employment Relations Commission launches new decisions website using Decisia

AQTIS revamps its collective bargaining agreements with Qweri
A Humble Beginning: 32 Years of Saskatchewan Case Digesting 
The year was 1982, and… Time Magazine's Man of the Year was the computer, Commodore 64 was the most popular home computer... And what cool tools did we have in Saskatchewan for legal research in 1982?
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Data Visualization in Law Libraries
Data visualization is one of those phrases that is frequently heard these days. It's a very interesting field; done properly, data visualization allows you to use charts, graphs or other visuals to put statistics into context far more easily than if they were in tabular format. The flip side is that if not done properly, data visualizations can be confusing or, even worse, misleading.. By Susannah Tredwell
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An announcement regarding The Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research!
The Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research has been freely available on the Internet since 1998. Catherine Best retired In 2015 and she generously donated the site to CanLII to use as our legal research guide going forward.
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Why you Should Move Beyond PDF for your Technical Manuals
If you're producing a reference document of some sort, 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 want to print your manual... By Pierre-Paul Lemyre
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