Judicial Decision Support Systems

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Judicial Decision Support Systems

• Third International Symposium
• Chicago-Kent College of Law
• May 25-26, 2001

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Justice Web Collaboratory

• Launched in 1999
• Partnership with National Center for State Courts
• Three initial projects
• Judgelink.org
• XML standards
• Pro se collaboratory

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Judgelink.org

• Publicly available portal on judicial issues
• News feed
• Reflections
• Links
• Judicial organizations
• Judges only discussion and chat
• Password protected
• NCSC pre-authorization required

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Judgelink.org

• Statistics
• 18,135 hits in April, 2001
• 75,000 hits since inception
• 5881 unique visitors
• 182 registered Judgelink members - judges

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JDSS and JWC Proposal

• Permanent archive of 3d International Conference
• Internationally accessible discussion and chat
  tools to continue the conversation until the
  4th Conference in 2003
• Opportunity to expand the audience for todays
  papers and add to the discourse

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Judgelink.org

• Demonstration by Todd Pedwell, Manager of the
  Justice Web Collaboratorywww.judgelink.orgJDSS
  collaboratory