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Global Legal Information Network
Law via the Internet - 6th Conference -
Paris - 4 November 2004 Session 2 The
Dissemination of Law The Distribution and
Convergence of Network Standards Dr. Rubens
Medina Chair, Executive Council (GLIN) The Law
Librarian, Library of Congress, USA
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Aspects of GLIN

• What GLIN is
• Guiding principles
• Membership
• Non-Commercial (Non-profit)
• Global.

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Content of GLIN

• Full texts
• Primary sources
• Secondary sources
• Original official languages
• Metadata in at least two languages.

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Reliable

• From official texts only
• Original official language(s)
• Current
• Complete.

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Benefits of Membership

• National / International oriented design
• Avoid duplicate efforts investment
• Examples of legislation / regulations on
  subjects of interest
• Reliability
• Shared standards
• Multilingual approach.

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New Functionality( January 2005)

• Four modules completed
• Cross-module searching
• Modules linked
• User account administration
• Statistics and reports.

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New User Interface

• Contemporary appearance
• Intuitive user friendly
• Web pages in multiple languages.

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New Thesaurus

• Fully integrated
• Input from members
• Multilingual.

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New Multilingual Capabilities

• Multilingual web pages
• Multilingual input
• Multilingual search.

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GLIN Future Releases

• Full-text searching in Arabic,
• Chinese, Korean and Russian.
• Legal thesauri in all supported languages.
• Cross-searching in all supported languages.
• Saved searches and alert service for members.

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