McMillan on Identifiers for Court Documents

James E. McMillan of the National Center for State Courts has posted How to Verify a Court Document?, Court Technology Bulletin, 18 February 2011.

In this post, Mr. McMillan describes the URN:LEX legal identifier standard, developed by Professor Dr. Enrico Francesconi and Pierluigi Spinosa, both of ITTIG/CNR, and Caterina Lupo of CNIPA.

Mr. McMillan also presents a sample pretrial memorandum designated by a URN:LEX URN.

This post is the third installment of Mr. McMillan’s series entitled, The Future Is Not Paper:

• Click here for Part 1, on Microsoft’s Pivot technology;
• Click here for Part 2, on dynamically updated court document systems.