Category: CoolTools

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Paper Badger looks to provide digital badges to contributors to scholarly papers

Exploring the use of digital badges for crediting contributors to scholarly papers for their work

Source: Paper Badger: Contributorship Badges

This seems a lot more fun than a mention in a footnote. I could collect these on my CV as a highly visible means of showing my work. This initial work is being done in the sciences but it is open source so some enterprising soul could make it work for legal scholarship.

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Use Socket.IO P2P to connect peers for chat and more via WebRTC

Socket.IO P2P provides an easy and reliable way to setup a WebRTC connection between peers and communicate using the socket.io-protocol.

Socket.IO is used to transport signaling data and as a fallback for clients where the WebRTC PeerConnection is not supported. Adding a simple piece of middleware to your socket.io setup enables this – no need to hand roll your own signaling exchange or set up, deploy and scale new servers.

Source: Socket.IO — Socket.IO P2P

There is potential here to create a secure, non-archived chat system that would be useful for education. Add chat to a CALI eLangdell Lawbook for example, or enable law student study groups.