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Hi! This is so exciting! Quick question: how does this compare with the Courtlistener/free law project data? (And are there any plans to work with them?)
by paultopia 8y ago
Hi! This is so exciting! Quick question: how does this compare with the Courtlistener/free law project data? (And are there any plans to work with them?)
- JackC 8y agoGreat question! We love Mike Lissner and have talked with him about connections between our projects. We'll definitely work with him if we get a chance. Benefits of our data set: we're more complete, being a census of all known volumes of official caselaw back to the beginning; we're easier to work with for data processing, since all of our data, across centuries and states, is in one consistently structured format; we have the page images, meaning if there's any question of accuracy, we can check the final authority. Benefits of FLP (and there may be others I don't know): they're updated in realtime from scanning court websites, so they'll stay up to date in a way we won't; their scraped text for modern cases doesn't have OCR errors; their site is much more featureful. At this point I see our strength as being a complete/consistently-formatted/authoritative data set of printed cases, which leaves lots of room for other caselaw databases with complementary goals.
- paultopia 8y agoThanks! I have a half-completed python library to access their api [1] --- maybe this will be good motivation to finish it and add yours, see if there's a useful way to query both at the same time in some circumstances. [1] https://github.com/paultopia/lawpy https://github.com/paultopia/lawpy