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Write a paper about FLP datasets and coverage #3

Open anseljh opened 7 years ago

anseljh commented 7 years ago

Fairly early on in the Stanford IP Litigation Clearinghouse (which later became Lex Machina), the project published a one-pager on what data it was collecting: Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse: Data Overview (2007).

CL & FLP have much more data now than the IPLC had at that point. I think it would be great if we could publish a similar short paper, aimed at scholars, to give them an overview of what's available.

mlissner commented 7 years ago

I'm not much of a writer these days, but I'd be interested in something like this existing. I think it'd send a nice signal to the academics that we speak their language. Smart.

anseljh commented 7 years ago

Related idea, probably part 1 of this paper: propose a standard vocabulary and methodology for reporting coverage of legal corpora. This would also help remove some of the FUD around coverage by different commercial providers.