My Twitter Digest for 08/16/2013

Same on the Outside, New in the Inside

Just a quick note to mark the changing of some of the back end of my blog. I’ve upgraded to WordPress 3.6. That was straightforward and seems to have gone well. I know there are a slew of new features included i WP 3.6 but I haven’t gotten to those yet. For a variety of technical reasons I moved the hosting and DNS of the domain and blog to Linode. With the move to Linode I switched web servers too. This blog is now running on the Nginx web server instead of Apache. I’ll probably have more to write about that switch in the coming weeks.

With these changes I bumped the version number of the blog to 6, so this now officially the sixth incarnation of my blog. I’ve been using WordPress since 2005 and you can find all of versions 4 and 5 going back to February 2005 on this blog. I’ve been blogging since October 2000 and have most of the archives of those blogs handy but offline at the moment. I’ll be bringing them all back shortly.

More soon.

 

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Could VIVO, An Open Source Platform For The Discovery of Researchers, Help Foster Collaboration in Legal Academia?

VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information. Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually,  brought into VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.

via About | VIVO.

Developed for use in the scientific research community, VIVO may have some interesting applications in the legal scholarship world. With enough community participation the VIVO platform would allow legal scholars to locate those with like interests to further collaborative efforts. It could also contribute to the identification of trends in legal scholarship and research.

The real question is whether or not law schools are prepared to make the necessary contributions. At the moment the beta version of the cross institutional VIVO search includes information from the law schools at three of the participating universities: Cornell, Indiana, and U of Florida. A search for “administrative law” returns 81 results, mostly from the 3 law schools.snapshot20130815-01

VIVO is worth keeping an eye as it grows. If it reaches its potential perhaps it will foster more collaboration in legal academia.

 

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