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The Official Version Authenticating, Preserving and Citing Legal Information in Digital Form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

C. Anne Crocker
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In November of 1997, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit, and the Legal Research Network staged a symposium titled The Official Version. The purpose of the symposium was to address some of the problems and challenges related to legal documentation in digital form. Most of us in the profession in Canada refer to it as “the summit”, an allusion to the rather arrogant sub-title: “A National Summit to Solve the Problems of Authenticating, Preserving and Citing Legal Information in Digital Form”.

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Research Article
Information
International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 26 , Issue 1-3 , 1998 , pp. 23 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by the International Association of Law Libraries 

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1 “The Official Version”: a National Summit to Solve the Problems of Authenticating, Preserving and Citing Legal Information in Digital Form, November 20–22, 1997: Proceedings. Kingston: CALL/ACBD, 1998. p. i.Google Scholar

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